Being Pragmatically Aware in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language

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Abstract

This paper analyzes Luciana María Cignetti and María Salomé Di Giuseppe’s paper entitled “Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction”. It discusses highlights of the research and areas for improvement, which would have helped provide a more thorough overview of the investigation. This research underlines the necessity for foreign languages teachers to be pragmatically aware.
Original languageEnglish
JournalRevista Nebrija de Lingüística Aplicada a la Enseñanza de las Lenguas
Volume19
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 30 Nov 2015

Keywords

  • pragmatics
  • implicatures
  • perceptions
  • foreign language teaching
  • pragmatic competence

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