Teaching Pragmatics

This lesson aims to promote awareness of short responses during conversations such as uh-huh and yeah known as backchannel behaviors; to increase awareness of cultural differences in backchannel behaviors; to allow students to practice behaviors that indicate active listening.

This lesson aims to help students become more aware of and have practice in using appropriate formulaic responses to common situations.

This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn how to make complaints during service encounters.

This lesson focuses on using the discourse markers well and oh for smoother discourse flow.

This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students develop appropriate written request strategies.

This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to raise learners' awareness of pragmatic rules and to increase input to learners and opportunities to observe native English speakers' pragmatic behavior.

This lesson aims for students to become more fluent in using and understanding basic greetings and leave-takings in brief "small talk" encounters.

This lesson aims for students to discuss pragmatic differences between their mother tongues and English, with special attention to openings and closings.

This lesson aims to help students gain confidence in conducting interactional conversations, with emphasis on conversational closings.

This lesson aims to introduce students to a variety of pragmatic routines and lexical phrases employed in disagreements between peers.

This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics focuses on raising pragmatic awareness in students using the concept of "mood."

This lesson aims to help students learn to respond appropriately to maintain a conversation.

This lesson aims to help students learn how to make contrasts using intonation.

This lesson aims to raise learners' pragmatic awareness towards an important conversational function and to help them to be aware of the negative impression brought about by the non-use of actually (or other softeners of contradiction or correction) and for students to learn to produce corrections o

This lesson teaches politeness strategies in English.

This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to raise awareness of and give practice in using strategies of relexicalisation for descriptive accounts and for promoting solidarity in short interactions. A sub-goal is to provide students with interesting and natural vehicles for vocabulary development, rec