Teaching Pragmatics
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Teaching Pragmatics explores the teaching of pragmatics through lessons and activities created by teachers of English as a second and foreign language.
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This lesson focuses on increasing student awareness of troubles caused by inappropriate choice of address forms.
Author:
Miyuki Takenoya
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takenoya.pdf
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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.
Author:
Anne Berry
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berry.pdf
pdf145.83kb
This lesson aims to help students become more aware of and have practice in using appropriate formulaic responses to common situations.
Author:
Lynda Yates
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yates.pdf
pdf80.55kb
This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn how to make complaints during service encounters.
Author:
Dudley W. Reynolds
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complaining-successfully.pdf
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This lesson focuses on using the discourse markers well and oh for smoother discourse flow.
Author:
Kent Lee
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lee-well.pdf
pdf144.39kb
This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students develop appropriate written request strategies.
Author:
Thomas Mach and Shelly Ridder
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mach.pdf
pdf102.56kb
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.
Author:
Noriko Ishihara
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giving.pdf
pdf39.78kb
This lesson aims for students to become more fluent in using and understanding basic greetings and leave-takings in brief "small talk" encounters.
Author:
Jennifer M. Herrin
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herrin.pdf
pdf246.67kb
This lesson aims for students to discuss pragmatic differences between their mother tongues and English, with special attention to openings and closings.
Author:
Melinda Edwards
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edwards-rev-auntie.pdf
pdf127.67kb
This lesson aims to help students gain confidence in conducting interactional conversations, with emphasis on conversational closings.
Author:
Olga Griswold
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griswold.pdf
pdf123.78kb
This lesson aims to introduce students to a variety of pragmatic routines and lexical phrases employed in disagreements between peers.
Author:
Lewis Malamed
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malamed.pdf
pdf189.79kb
This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics focuses on raising pragmatic awareness in students using the concept of "mood."
Author:
Edit H. Kontra
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awareness-kontra.pdf
pdf83kb
This lesson aims to help students learn to respond appropriately to maintain a conversation.
Author:
Sara Gallow
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sara-gallow.pdf
pdf122.92kb
This lesson aims to help students learn how to make contrasts using intonation.
Author:
Anne Wennerstrom
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wennerstrom.pdf
pdf81.4kb
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
Author:
Olga Barsony
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barsony.pdf
pdf133.33kb
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howard.pdf
pdf124.07kb
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
Author:
Janet M.D. Higgins
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higgins.pdf
pdf177.39kb
This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn how to request the main point.
Author:
Yi Yuan
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yuan.pdf
pdf80.15kb
This lesson aims to introduce students to a range of different ways in which native speakers soften their requests and to develop their awareness of how these are used by different speakers and in different situations within the speech community.
Author:
Lynda Yates
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short-yates.pdf
pdf81.98kb
The goal of this article is to increase awareness of the factors that affect the linguistic realization of speech acts in American English.
Author:
Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas
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biesenbach_0.pdf
pdf151.51kb
This lesson aims to discuss and raise students’ awareness of pragmatic violations.
Author:
Melinda Edwards
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edwards.pdf
pdf201.27kb
This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to pronounce a range of parentheticals appropriately.
Author:
Wayne B. Dickerson
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dickerson.pdf
pdf75.78kb
The goals of this lesson in Teaching Pragmatics are: raising awareness that misunderstandings can be caused by differences in performing speech acts between Japanese and Americans; making learners aware of what they know already and encouraging them to use their universal or transferable L1 pragmati
Author:
Sachiko Kondo
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kondorev.pdf
pdf113.53kb
This lesson aims to develop awareness and understanding of the nature of telephone conversation openings from a social, interactional perspective.
Author:
Jean Wong
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wong.pdf
pdf148.91kb
This lesson aims helps students navigate requests by identifying pragmatically appropriate language.
Author:
Tom Salsbury
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salsbury.pdf
pdf93.93kb
This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to make requests, extend invitations, and offer congratulations (or other speech acts) and to learn how to open and close telephone conversations when leaving a message.
Author:
Jane E. Hardy
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hardy.pdf
pdf83.76kb
This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to make requests, extend invitations, and offer congratulations (or other speech acts) and to learn how to open and close telephone conversations when leaving a message.
Author:
Douglas A. Demo
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demo.pdf
pdf367.48kb
This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students develop appropriate written request strategies.
Author:
Donald Weasenforth
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weasenforth.pdf
pdf103.29kb
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