Abstract This study investigates the impact of a predeparture intervention on developing pragmatic knowledge in abroad context. The included 66 university-level Japanese learners English who participated four-month program Canada. consisted implicit-inductive, explicit-deductive, and explicit-inductive methods instruction speech acts. Pragmatic development was measured by gain scores written di...

Despite the advances in technology and sign language awareness, many Deaf Hard of Hearing (DHH) children have delays as a consequence difficulty accessing model. These are often particularly pronounced domain pragmatics, where user takes into account people they communicating with their shared access to current context. This review considers effect childhood deafness can on pragmatic developmen...

PURPOSE This study compared pragmatic language in youths (9-17 years) with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and those with typical development (TD) on the Yale in vivo Pragmatic Protocol (YiPP), a semistructured, dynamic conversational assessment. METHOD Participants (n = 118) were divided into groups based on age and diagnosis. Each completed the YiPP, which included 4 pragmatic domains (disco...

PURPOSE Pragmatic language difficulties have been documented as part of the FMR1 premutation phenotype, yet the interplay between these features in mothers and the language outcomes of their children with fragile X syndrome is unknown. This study aimed to determine whether pragmatic language difficulties in mothers with the FMR1 premutation are related to the language development of their child...

... “There were some boys and some girls, and suddenly one of them laughed out loud. Can you tell me who?” says the experimenter. “The girl!” retorts a 4-year-old child. This paper readdresses the issue of young English children’s misinterpretation and misuse of the definite determiner ‘the’ as ‘one of’, especially in such partitive contexts, where neither the speaker nor the listener know the ...

Reviewing the evidence of CG-tool research and development in conference papers, we find little attention devoted to the issues and institution of scientific methodology, and only vague awareness of how that deficiency impairs progress. To focus attention and improve awareness, we briefly delineate the evolution of C.S. Peirce's theory of inquiry toward Eduard Hovy’s general methodology for res...