One of the theories accounting for pragmatic development of L2 learners is Vygotsky’s (1978) sociocultural  theory.  This  study  investigated  the  development  of  EFL  learners'  pragmatic competence through the lens of an important concept of Vygotsky’s theory, i.e.  the  zone  of proximal  development.  The  study  was  conducted  to  answer  two  questions.  The  first  question was wheth...

Veryfew attempts have been made in the past to develop instruments to measure pragmatic knowledge of second language (L2) learners. The absence of such instruments in the literature of English language teaching (ELT) underscores the need for the researchers to develop new tests that are specifically designed to assess this crucial but less explored aspect of language learners’ (LLs) knowledge. ...

Producing narrative is a skill that must be acquired in order to become a competent language user in a first as well as in a second language. In children, narrative competence is often acquired late (Karmiloff-Smith, 1979), in part because children only start stringing sentences together regularly, once they have acquired the linguistic skills necessary to form sentences. Cohesive discourse, ho...

ISSN: 1479-0718 (Print) 1747-7530 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmjm20 How does pragmatic competence develop in bilinguals? Istvan Kecskes To cite this article: Istvan Kecskes (2015): How does pragmatic competence develop in bilinguals?, International Journal of Multilingualism, DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2015.1071018 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/147...

The role of instruction in developing pragmatic competence in L2 Chinese: A review of empirical evidences" (2013). World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications. Paper 38. TITLE: The role of instruction in developing pragmatic competence in L2 Chinese: A review of empirical evidences

Learners’ language has been described as transitional competence (Corder, 1967) and interlanguage (Selinker, 1972), and it has been categorized as a natural language (Adjemian, 1976). This indicates that learners possess their own languages. However, the question remains whether or not learners’ language has been explained and understood on its own, and not merely compared to target-language (T...

Pragmatic aspect of second language (L2) as a component of communicative competence has recently received more attention. Many research studies have investigated the gap between native and nonnative speakers’ command of L2 pragmatics. However, development of L2 pragmatics has been the focus of few studies. In this study, how coursebooks can help both nonnative teachers and learners develop L2 p...

The paper presents a case study of early childhood language development focused on Tamil child from Sri Lanka. research aims to analyse the progress Lanka achieves in at five levels: phonological, morphological, syntactical, semantic, and pragmatic. methodology involves five-fold linguistic analysis some utterances extracted conversation between researcher subject, who is six-year-old Lankan ch...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate students maj...