Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing (Second Language Acquisition): 30 - Softcover

Eva Alcon Soler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184769084X ISBN 13: 9781847690845

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2008

Synopsis

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings and focuses on different foreign languages. The book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.

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Review:

This book is a rich source of knowledge and inspiration for beginner and more advanced researchers, contributes to the development of the multilingual field of interlanguage pragmatics and provides valuable pedagogical implications for language teachers in the foreign language classroom. --Anna Ni egorodcew, Professor in Applied Linguistics, English Department, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Adopting a range of theoretical perspectives and focusing on a variety of learning contexts and approaches to learning, this timely collection of articles represents a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on the teaching of pragmatics in the foreign language context. It is essential reading for interlanguage pragmaticists. --Dr. Anne Barron, Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie, Universität Bonn, Germany.

About the Author:

Eva Alcón Soler, senior lecturer at University Jaume I, has been working on discourse and language learning since 1993. Her research has covered, among others, interlanguage pragmatics, lingua franca communication, interaction and second language acquisition. Her recent publications have focussed on intercultural language use and language learning and on learning pragmatics in foreign language contexts. Alicia Martínez-Flor is a lecturer in the Department of English Studies, Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, Spain, where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in EFL teaching methodology. As a result of her own learning process of the English language, she became interested in investigating the acquisition of pragmatic competence in foreign language contexts. Her research interests include second language acquisition and interlanguage pragmatics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 184769084X
• ISBN 13: 9781847690845
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Eva Alcon Soler, Alicia Martinez-Flor