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Maria Kostromitina; Yongzhi Miao – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
English has become an international language (EIL) as speakers around the world use it as a universal means of communication. Accordingly, scholars have investigated different aspects of EIL affecting communicative success. Speech scholars have been interested in speech constructs like accentedness, comprehensibility, and acceptability (e.g., Kang…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tzu-Hua Chen – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Despite evidence on the interaction between cognitive individual differences (IDs) and task complexity, our knowledge of how affective IDs, such as foreign language enjoyment (FLE), interact with task complexity and other factors is limited. Since tasks and activities were found by Dewaele and MacIntyre (2014) to be most relevant to FLE, and since…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication, Task Analysis
Krulatz, Anna; Dixon, Tülay – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
The present paper describes a contrastive study of interlanguage refusal strategies employed by Korean and Norwegian learners of English as an additional language. The data were collected from multilingual first-year students at an American university in South Korea and in an English-medium program at a Norwegian university by means of an online…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Hernández, Todd A. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
The present study examined the apologies of 18 study abroad (SA) students during a short-term SA experience in Madrid, Spain. Apologies were assessed with a discourse completion task (DCT) consisting of five vignettes that varied across three variables: relative social status of the interlocutor, relative social distance, and seriousness of the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Pragmatics, Study Abroad
Li, Qiong – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Drawing on the findings of longitudinal studies in uninstructed contexts over the last two decades, this synthesis explores variations in developmental patterns across second language (L2) pragmatic features. Two synthesis questions were addressed: (a) What are the variations in developmental patterns across pragmatic features?, and (b) What are…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Longitudinal Studies, Semantics
Xiao, Feng – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
This paper synthesizes cross-sectional studies of the effect of proficiency on second language (L2) pragmatics to answer the synthesis question: Does proficiency affect adult learners' pragmatic competence? Findings have revealed an overall positive proficiency effect on pragmatic competence, and in most cases higher proficiency learners have…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Pragmatics, Speech Acts
Sykes, Julie M.; Cohen, Andrew D. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Explicit instruction in strategies for interlanguage pragmatic learning is fundamental to the development of a comprehensive set of pragmatic abilities in the target language. In this article, we begin by providing an overview of previous work in the area of language learner strategies directed at the teaching and learning of pragmatics. We then…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Pragmatics, Interlanguage, Second Language Learning