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ISBN: 1847696112 1280120908 9786613524768 1847696104 9781847696106 9781280120909 9781847696090 1847696090 9781847696083 1847696082 661352476X Year: 2012 Publisher: Bristol Blue Ridge Summit
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Pragmatic competence plays a key role in the era of globalization where communication across cultural boundaries is an everyday phenomenon. The ability to use language in a socially appropriate manner is critical, as lack of it may lead to cross-cultural miscommunication or cultural stereotyping. This book describes second language learners’ development of pragmatic competence. It proposes an original theoretical framework combining a pragmatics and psycholinguistics approach, and uses a variety of research instruments, both quantitative and qualitative, to describe pragmatic development over one year. Situated in a bilingual university in Japan, the study reveals patterns of change across different pragmatic abilities among Japanese learners of English. The book offers implications for SLA theories, the teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence, and intercultural communication.
English language --- Pragmatics. --- Communicative competence. --- Competence, Communicative --- Communication --- Competence and performance (Linguistics) --- Psycholinguistics --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Germanic languages --- Study and teaching --- Philosophy --- Japanese learners of English. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- intercultural communication. --- language use and social contexts. --- learn English and pragmatics. --- pragmatic competence. --- pragmatics. --- psycholinguistics. --- second language learners’ development of pragmatic competence.
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ISBN: 1783093951 9781783093946 1783093943 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bristol: Multilingual matters,
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SLA literature tends to focus predominantly on what motivates language learners, but what demotivates them has not been widely discussed. This book, focusing exclusively on demotivation, will help readers to understand motivational issues from a different perspective. The aims of the work are threefold: to present the current developments of demotivation research in the field of SLA and bridge motivational theory/research and demotivation research; to promote the understanding of possible causes of demotivation; and to expand the focus of demotivation research through a reflection on current motivation theory/research and a discussion of methodological issues. The research presented in this book is situated in Japanese English-teaching contexts and will serve as a foundation for anyone wishing to better understand the causes of demotivation in SLA and to explore the topic in their own contexts.
Language and languages --- Motivation in education --- Second language acquisition --- Demotivation. --- Demotivators. --- Japanese ESL learners. --- Japanese English teaching. --- Japanese learners of English. --- L2 motivation. --- Motivational theory. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- motivating language learners. --- motivation and language learning. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Academic motivation --- Academic achievement --- Learning, Psychology of --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Motivation --- Study and teaching --- Japanese speakers. --- Japanese students. --- Language and languages - Motivation - Japan --- Second language acquisition - Motivation - Japan --- Language and languages - Study and teaching - Japan --- Motivation in education - Japan --- Language and languages - Study and teaching - Japanese students --- Language and languages - Study and teaching - Japanese speakers
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