Evaluating the Effects of Input-based Approaches to the Teaching of Pragmalinguistics and Sociopragmatics in Second Language Pragmatics: A Case of English Request Hedges

The present study examined the effects of two types of input-based approaches – combination of pragmalinguistics – and sociopragmatics-focused instruction (CI) and sociopragmatics-focused instruction (SI) on learners' recognizing and producing English request hedges. 45 Japanese learners of Eng...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Masahiro Takimoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The International Academic Forum 2014-10-01
Series:IAFOR Journal of Language Learning
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Online Access:https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-language-learning/volume-1-issue-1/article-1/