The Pragmatics of Greetings: Teaching Speech Acts in the EFL Classroom
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This article explains how greetings vary across cultures and why pragmatic competence is essential for successful communication in English. It offers classroom strategies—including greeting journals, television analysis, discourse-completion tasks, role-plays, and mingles—to help learners use and respond to greetings appropriately in different contexts.
Author:
B. Bricklin Zeff
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| etf_54_1_pg02-11.pdf | 181.49kb | Download |
English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1
Read about pragmatics, learn tips for publishing, and use the latest “Try This” activity in your classroom. All of this and more can be found in the newest English Teaching Forum.