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Making the implicit explicit: raising pragmatic awareness in trainee interpreters, using semi-authentic spontaneous discourse samples

Sachtleben, A; Denny, HG (TESOL, AUT University; 2012)

Following the recent interest in the teaching of pragmatics and the recognition of its importance for both cross-cultural communication and new speakers of an additional language, the authors carried out an action research ...
Teaching pragmatics to lower level learners

Denny, HG; Healy, J; Macdonald, F (TESOLANZ, Victoria University of Wellington, AUT University; 2012)

The teaching and learning of the pragmatics (socio-culturally determined norms) of a second language is vital if migrants and refugees are to live and work in the country of resettlement without miscommunication (Yates, ...
Language shift and host society attitudes: Dutch migrants who arrived in New Zealand between 1950 and 1965

Crezee, I (Sage Publishers; 2012)

Language shift and host society attitudes - Dutch migrants who arrived in New Zealand between 1950 and 1965 Abstract A study published in 2010 reported on past and current language use of a group of older Dutch migrants ...