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Working with Formulaic Language as a Way to Evaluate and Improve EFL Non-linguistics Students’ Pragmatic Skills in a Culture-specific Contextual Situation

Year: 2015

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The present article considers the learners’ ability to understand and use formulaic language as an indicator of their pragmatic skills. Experimental data has been collected and analyzed to identify the current level of the learners’ pragmatic skills and to reveal problems they face in culture-specific communicative situations. Classroom activities for developing pragmatic skills have been suggested.

Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.08.022

Authors: Anna V. Tsepilova, Lyubov V. Mikhaleva

Institutions: Tomsk Polytechnic University, National Research Tomsk State University

Language: English

Topic: Linguistics and Language Analysis

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Tomsk Polytechnic University, Escuela Politécnica Nacional