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The role of teacher consultation in teacher education: a teacher development project focused on designing and evaluating pragmatics-focused instructional materials

Denny, HG; Basturkmen, H (Applied Linguisitcs Association of New Zealand, AUT University; 2011)

Limited knowledge of pragmatics (the socio-cultural 'rules' of interaction in a community and how they are realised in language) can constitute a barrier to successful communication in a second language (Eslami-Rasekh, ...
Teachers' perceptions of the value and their practices in teaching pragmatics including the use of authentic texts

Denny, H; Basturkmen, H (AUT University; 2009)

Research shows that even learners with advanced levels of grammatical competence may still experience pragmatic difficulties (Bardovi-Harlig & Dornyei, 1998) and that some form of explicit instruction is helpful for ...

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