Download or read book Interlanguage Pragmatics A Study of Moroccan EFL Learners Requests written by Ayoub Loutfi and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate goal of this study is to investigate the issue of pragmatic transfer from L1 into the interlanguage of Moroccan learners of English, namely when these learners make requests in English. More specifically, this study seeks to compare the average frequencies of direct and indirect strategies used by both native Moroccan English as a foreign language learners and native English speakers. Finally, this study will further attempt to explore whether transfer decreases as the study level increases, namely the case of the Moroccan EFL university learners at the first and the third level of University. A number of sixty subjects take part in the present study. They are divided into two groups. The first group involves the Moroccan learners of English who in turn bifurcated into two groups of academic level: Second Year (N=20) and Third year (N=20). The subjects in the second group are 20 native speakers of English. In order to answer the research questions addressed in this study, the Discourse Completion Task (DCT) is adopted. This DCT provides the subjects with a number of seven situations in which different situations are controlled, namely social distance, power relation, and the degree of imposition. A Moroccan Arabic DCT is also used in order to examine how Moroccan students perform requests in their mother tongues. The results reveal that evidence of pragmatic transfer is found in the requests produced by Moroccan learners of English. Thus, the first hypothesis is confirmed. The second finding is that academic level does not play a major role in pragmatic ability. For this fact, the second research hypothesis is rejected in favor of the null hypothesis drawing the conclusion that pragmatic transfer is not related to academic level. To sum up the whole, a number of research and pedagogical implications are suggested.
Download or read book Speech ACT Knowledge Among Moroccan Efl Learners at the University written by Karim El Hiani and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, it has been recognized that pragmatic competence is a fundamental element for an adequate mastery of foreign languages. Knowledge of speech acts in EFL contexts has been one of the primary concerns of a number of researchers in the field of interlanguage pragmatics. This book brings serious issues on the surface in terms of investigating EFL learners' production of speech acts. In this respect, Moroccan context is considered as a fertile ground to make valuable studies in this area because of the outstanding status of English language especially at the university level. As a result, the book adresses profoundly the critical issue of pragmatic transfer and its impact on learners' communicative competence. Undoubtedly, this book provides credible insights for learners, teachers, and curriculum designers; It is inspiring as it critically pushes the reader to ask significant questions regarding EFL learners' pragmatic competence. In addition, it is an illuminating window to develop new research projects.
Download or read book The Syntax of Arabic and French Code Switching in Morocco written by Mustapha Aabi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book posits a universal syntactic constraint (FPC) for code switching, using as its basis a study of different types of code-switching between French, Moroccan Arabic and Standard Arabic in a language contact situation. After presenting the theoretical background and linguistic context under study, the author closely examines examples of syntactic constraints in the language of functional bilinguals switching between French and forms of Arabic, proposing that this hypothesis can also be applied in other comparable language contact and translanguaging contexts worldwide. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of French, Arabic, theoretical linguistics, syntax and bilingualism.
Download or read book Interlanguage Pragmatics written by Gabriele Kasper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a field of inquiry, interlanguage pragmatics reflects the growing interest in recent years in understanding the social and pragmatic aspects of second language acquisition. Interlanguage Pragmatics offers an up-to-date synthesis of current research in the field, documenting from diverse perspectives the development, comprehension, and production of pragmatic knowledge in a second language. The book consists of three sections. The first concerns cognitive approaches to interlanguage pragmatic development; the second, interlanguage speech act realization of a variety of speech acts; and the third, discoursal perspectives on interlanguage. Each section is prefaced by an introduction by the editors which provides relevant theoretical and methodological background. The editors' general introduction offers a critical overview of the issues currently debated. This book is the first to exclusively address the pragmatic dimension in second language acquistion, presenting a state-of-the-art view of the field and outlining directions for future research.
Download or read book Pragmatic Transfer and Development written by Wei Li and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Email has become a ubiquitous medium of communication. It is used amongst people from the same speech community, but also between people from different language and cultural backgrounds. When people communicate, they tend to follow rules of speaking in their native language, termed by scholars as pragmatic transfer, which may cause misunderstandings and lead to cross-cultural communication breakdown. This book examines pragmatic transfer by Chinese learners of English at different proficiency levels when writing email requests and refusals. To meet the need for developmental research in L2 pragmatics, it also explores whether pragmatic transfer increases or decreases as language proficiency improves. This book will appeal to researchers and students in interlanguage and intercultural pragmatics, second language acquisition, English as a second/foreign language, and intercultural communication.
Download or read book Lexical Gaps in the Interlanguage of Moroccan EFL Learners written by Nada Biddou and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicating accurately and fluently is certainly the ultimate objective of any foreign language learner. Yet, with limited knowledge and inadequate communication skills EFL learners are likely to experience communication breakdowns which are most of the times the outcome of lexical gaps. With this in mind, learners are in need of some strategies that will enable them to interact accurately and assist them in overcoming communication difficulties. Communication strategies are, in fact, crucial in helping EFL learners to communicate successfully especially when encountering speech production breakdowns. The present study investigates oral communication strategies, focusing primarily on its function in adjusting lexical gaps instances in Moroccan high school EFL learners' interlanguage.
Download or read book INTERLANGUAGE PRAGMATICS OF INVITATION written by Lestari Ambar Sukesti and published by Rasibook. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding grammar does not guarantee speaking or making utterances appropriately (Cohen, 1996; Thomas, 1983). As pragmatics differs from one culture to other second or foreign language, learners should acquire the sociopragmatics and pragmalinguistic rules of the foreign or second language to enable them to make communication effectively with native speakers. Miscommunication often occurs due to incident that people make use of the rules of their native pragmatics to express intention in other culture without realizing the difference between these two cultures (Thomas, 1983). Error in grammar could be tolerable but inappropriateness will affect the communication outcomes. The conversation may lead to an awkward situation which is not realized by the learners of the language. Invitation is a part of speech acts, which reflects the actualization of an illocutionary intention of a speaker through utterances, either spoken or written. The speech act of invitation emerges when someone asks somebody else to attend to a kind of occasion, usually the one that is hosted by the inviter. Suzuki’s findings in his research on making invitation by native American undergraduate students describe 2 different strategies, namely; Want (W) and asking for Willingness (AW), however based on the writer’s findings in her research on interlanguage pragmatics of invitation by Indonesian EFL learners, there are three more strategies in making invitation, namely; Performative (P), Imperative (I), and Hoping (H). Gender also influences in making inviting strategies based on social status and familiarity, including the use of deference or solidarity markers. Male participants use more various solidarity markers especially when the invitation is addressed to female invitees. It might happen as male participants try to touch the invetee emotionally and keep close to the invetees. Both male and female participants tend to verbose. The more descriptors in the scenarios the more explanations the participants use in inviting others. However, the most significant finding is that female participants is said to adopt more performative (P) and hoping strategy (H) in all situations. Female participant is considered expectant to the invitation to be fulfilled by the invetees. The contribution of distance, power, and rank of imposition to the way the participants elicit their politeness strategies was also found in this study. When there is a distance between the inveter and the invetee the participants make different ways in making inviting strategies. However, in the realm of pragmalinguistics, the participants cannot differentiate the use of neutral and polite strategies while addressing the invitation to higher level of the invetees. It is found out in the use of willingness neutral and imperative strategies by the participants to invetees who are of higher status. It might due to the lack of pragmatics knowledge of the participants toward the language.
Download or read book Refusals in instructional contexts and beyond written by Otilia Martí-Arnándiz and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little exposure and few opportunities for practice are two main drawbacks for learners in instructional contexts. These problems are intensified when dealing with face-threatening acts such as refusals, as learners are not fully capable of expressing their meanings and miscommunication is a likely by-product. The present volume aims at exploring factors and production of refusals in different instructional settings by means of ten original papers which address key questions dealing with the speech act of refusals. The relevance of the volume lies in the individual contributions which embrace innovative perspectives on refusals in order to provide an excellent contribution to this field of enquiry. The book is an obligatory reading for researchers and students interested in the field of interlanguage pragmatics, who will benefit from the range of educational contexts in which refusals are investigated.
Download or read book Measuring Interlanguage Pragmatic Knowledge of EFL Learners written by Jianda Liu and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatic competence is an integral and indispensable component of overall language competence. Omitting the pragmatic dimension from language assessment is, therefore, quite unfortunate. This book describes the development and validation of three test methods designed to test the interlanguage pragmatic knowledge of EFL learners. Altogether 413 subjects participated in the development of the tests. Results showed that all the three methods investigated had measured learners' interlanguage pragmatic knowledge. Quantitative analyses showed that the tests tapped the intended construct and the test methods measured a similar construct. Analyses of verbal reports yielded results which supported the quantitative analyses and revealed that the construct-relevant knowledge was involved in the test takers' cognitive activities. This book ends with some pedagogical implications of this study and directions for further research.
Download or read book Context Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence written by Naoko Taguchi and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatic competence plays a key role in the era of globalization where communication across cultural boundaries is an everyday phenomenon. The ability to use language in a socially appropriate manner is critical, as lack of it may lead to cross-cultural miscommunication or cultural stereotyping. This book describes second language learners’ development of pragmatic competence. It proposes an original theoretical framework combining a pragmatics and psycholinguistics approach, and uses a variety of research instruments, both quantitative and qualitative, to describe pragmatic development over one year. Situated in a bilingual university in Japan, the study reveals patterns of change across different pragmatic abilities among Japanese learners of English. The book offers implications for SLA theories, the teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence, and intercultural communication.
Download or read book Form Function Mapping in Content Based Language Teaching written by Magdalena Walenta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a form-function mapping (FFM) model for balancing language and content gains within content-based language teaching (CBLT). It includes a theoretical part, which outlines the FFM model and, drawing on the analysis of eclectic teaching methods and interlanguage restructuring, proposes pedagogical tools for its implementation. These tools, which encourage mapping of language forms onto content knowledge, are hypothesized to facilitate interlanguage restructuring, thus helping CBLT learners in their struggle with L2 morpho-syntax. The empirical section presents the results of a quantitative–qualitative study conducted among adult L1 Polish learners of English in a CBLT context. It then goes on to translate the findings, which reveal that the FFM model has a positive and significant influence on interlanguage restructuring as well as a favorable reception among CBLT learners, into a set of pedagogical guidelines for practitioners.
Download or read book Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning written by Lucis Fernández Amaya and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a wide ranging overview of key theoretical and practical issues, empirical research and various analyses of pragmatic phenomena that will certainly be most useful and helpful to students and researchers in pragmatics and other linguistic disciplines and, of course, to L2 teachers. It is divided into five parts that include chapters addressing cognitive issues on L2 teaching, how and what to teach when dealing with specific speech acts, intercultural aspects of communication, the teaching of languages for academic and specific purposes and some other methodological issues on pragmatics teaching.
Download or read book Understanding Second Language Acquisition written by Lourdes Ortega and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading. Ideal as a textbook for students of applied linguistics, foreign language education, TESOL, and education, it is also recommended for students of linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. Supporting resources for tutors are available free at www.routledge.com/ortega.
Download or read book Investigating the Learning of Pragmatics Across Ages and Contexts written by Patricia Salazar-Campillo and published by Brill. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume embraces a series of studies on pragmatic issues taking into account different contexts and ages thus allowing for wider perspectives on interlanguage pragmatics.
Download or read book Cross Cultural Pragmatics written by Juliane House and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an engaging introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics. It is essential reading for both academics and students in pragmatics, applied linguistics, language teaching and translation studies. It offers a corpus-based and empirically-derived framework which allows language use to be systematically contrasted across linguacultures.
Download or read book Reconnecting Extensive Reading and Academic Writing in the Moroccan EFL Classroom written by Housseine Bachiri and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Pedagogy - Miscellaneous Topics, , course: English, language: English, abstract: This dissertation arises from an attempt to answer questions about whether Moroccan first and second year university students of English as a foreign language (EFL) need extensive reading in order to produce academic texts. Having used two different questionnaires, along with an extensive reading experiment at Mohammed V University, I have been able to analyze and discuss both ethnographic and numerical data obtained from the aforementioned research instruments. The participants in my research were Moroccan university students and professors. Results indicate a myriad of shortcomings in the teaching of reading and writing in Moroccan higher education. Classroom activities demonstrate a lack of students’ engagement and interaction, especially in the reading session. Results also show students’ willingness and keenness to commence reading extensively because they feel empowered, confident, and fluent over time. Extensive reading (a receptive skill) and academic writing (a productive skill) are both interactive, constructive, and complementary. In extensive reading, students learn to increase their reading speed and comprehension while simultaneously expanding their lexicon, whereas in academic writing they learn to think about the context, audience, and purpose of their piece of writing. In doing so, they learn to write with simplicity, accuracy, clarity, and an analytical eye. For students, these skills are new and they will ipso facto get used to them after they start writing. Development of literacy de facto relies enormously upon effective learning of reading and writing, for students consume knowledge through the former and produce it through the latter. Given this, both extensive reading and academic writing can solidly transform students into future writers, scholars, thinkers, and academics whose intellectual contributions will change the course of our country for the better. Therefore, the pedagogy adopted for the teaching of reading and writing in Moroccan higher education should be reconsidered.
