Using short stories vs. video clips to improve upper intermediate EFL students’ sociopragmatic knowledge: Speech acts in focus

To formulate appropriate speech acts necessitates the use of specific pragmatic and sociolinguistic skills which play a pivotal role in the knowledge of scripts and patterns of communicative events. Such an ability is influenced by the contextual and social variables that determine the linguistic re...

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Main Authors: Afroozeh Heidari, Hossein Heidari Tabrizi, Azizeh Chalak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-01-01
Series:Cogent Arts & Humanities
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2020.1778977