Creating a Social Context Through Film: Teaching L2 Pragmatics as a Locally Situated Process

Pragmatics is an underrepresented area in L2 instruction, in spite of disciplinary emphasis on communicative skills (de Pablos-Ortega, 2011; Eisenchlas, 2011). Films have been shown to be capable of mitigating this lack of pedagogically prepared materials (Abrams, 2014; Kambara, 2011; Fernández-Guer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zsuzsanna Abrams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2016-01-01
Series:L2 Journal
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4j89k6k7#main