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Cultivating Interlanguage Pragmatic Comprehension through Concurrent and Cumulative Group Dynamic Assessment: A Mixed-Methods Study
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Rezai, Afsheen – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
This study explored the effects of concurrent group dynamic assessment (G-DA) and cumulative G-DA on Iranian pre-intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' interlanguage pragmatic comprehension (ILPC). To this end, a total of 97 pre-intermediate learners took the key English test (KET) test and 45 learners whose scores fell between…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Socio-Pragmatic, Lexico-Grammatical, and Cognitive Strategies in L2 Pragmatic Comprehension: The Case of Iranian Male vs. Female EFL Learners
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Malmir, Ali; Derakhshan, Ali – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
Since its inception, pragmatic competence has been studied vastly; the majority of these studies, however, have examined pragmatic production, and pragmatic comprehension is chiefly under-researched. This lack of adequate research also stands true for the underlying pragmatic comprehension processes and strategies. Therefore, the present…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Metapragmatic Instruction (6Rs) versus Input-Based Practice: A Comparison of Their Effects on Pragmatic Accuracy and Speed in the Recognition and Oral Production of English Refusals
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Shirinbakhsh, Salva; Rasekh, Abbass Eslami; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Language Learning Journal, 2018
Recent findings in the field of pragmatics have revealed that pragmatic accuracy (knowledge) and pragmatic speed (processing ability) function as two distinct and non-parallel components of pragmatic competence. Anderson's adaptive control of thought--rational (ACT-R) model, which emphasises the development of skill through repeated practice,…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
On the Role of L1 Markedness and L2 Input Robustness in Determining Potentially Fossilizable Language Forms in Iranian EFL Learners' Writing
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Nushi, Musa – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
Han's (2009, 2013) selective fossilization hypothesis (SFH) claims that L1 markedness and L2 input robustness determine the fossilizability (and learnability) of an L2 feature. To test the validity of the model, a pseudo-longitudinal study was designed in which the errors in the argumentative essays of 52 Iranian EFL learners were identified and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Negotiation of Meaning and Modified Output Elicitation across Two Tasks
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Rahimian, Mehdi – English Language Teaching, 2013
Analysing the effects of second language (L2) production on L2 learners' interlanguage (IL) modifications is the main scope of this paper. For this purpose, English L2 learners' output production and IL modifications in performing two different task types, one-way and two-way tasks, are compared. The one-way task used in this study was a story…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interlanguage