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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2020-01-01
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Series: | Cogent Arts & Humanities |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2020.1778977 |