Teaching Pragmatics explores the teaching of pragmatics through lessons and activities created by teachers of English as a second and foreign language.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn how to request the main point. (Students should be able to request the main point appropriately and interpret the functions of different linguistic forms correctly after this activity.)
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to introduce students to a variety of pragmatic routines and lexical phrases employed in disagreements between peers.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students develop appropriate written request strategies.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics focuses on raising pragmatic awareness in students using the concept of "mood." Through simple conversational exchanges, students can practice expressing their real or assumed mood and can observe how the mood changes their own language and the language of their conversation partner.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to raise learners' pragmatic awareness towards an important conversational function and to help them to be aware of the negative impression brought about by the non-use of actually (or other softeners of contradiction or correction). Students will learn to produce corrections or contradictions prefaced by actually.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students develop appropriate written request strategies.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics allows students to learn some politeness strategies in English.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn how to make contrasts using intonation.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to navigate requests by identifying pragmatically appropriate language.
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The goal of this article in Teaching Pragmatics is to increase awareness of the factors that affect the linguistic realization of speech acts in American English.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to respond appropriately to maintain a conversation.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to introduce students to a range of different ways in which native speakers soften their requests and to develop their awareness of how these are used by different speakers and in different situations within the speech community.
This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics examines different ways of greeting people.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to promote awareness of short responses during conversations such as uh-huh and yeah known as backchannel behaviors; to increase awareness of cultural differences in backchannel behaviors; to allow students to practice behaviors that indicate active listening.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to make requests, extend invitations, and offer congratulations (or other speech acts) and to learn how to open and close telephone conversations when leaving a message.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to discuss and raise students’ awareness of pragmatic violations (in the areas of openings, closings, and requests).
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to pronounce a range of parentheticals appropriately. Parentheticals are expressions used to direct a message, to tell a listener how the speaker feels about a message, to manage the interpretation of the main message, to exemplify something, or to show deference or express something politely.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to make requests, extend invitations, and offer congratulations (or other speech acts) and to learn how to open and close telephone conversations when leaving a message.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics focuses on increasing student awareness of troubles caused by inappropriate choice of address forms.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims for students to become more fluent in using and understanding basic greetings and leave-takings in brief "small talk" encounters.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn how to make complaints during service encounters.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to enhance awareness of pragmatic variation with respect to setting (U.S. or home country) and participant characteristics (age, cultural background, and gender) in an airport scenario.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims for students to discuss pragmatic differences between their mother tongues and English, with special attention to openings and closings.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to raise learners' awareness of pragmatic rules and to increase input to learners and opportunities to observe native English speakers' pragmatic behavior.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to raise awareness of and give practice in using strategies of relexicalisation for descriptive accounts and for promoting solidarity in short interactions. A sub-goal is to provide students with interesting and natural vehicles for vocabulary development, recycling and revision.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students gain confidence in conducting interactional conversations, with emphasis on conversational closings.
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The goals of this lesson in Teaching Pragmatics are: raising awareness that misunderstandings can be caused by differences in performing speech acts between Japanese and Americans; making learners aware of what they know already and encouraging them to use their universal or transferable L1 pragmatic knowledge in L2 contexts; teaching the appropriate linguistic forms that are likely to be encountered in performing speech acts.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics focuses on using the discourse markers well and oh for smoother discourse flow.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to develop awareness and understanding of the nature of telephone conversation openings from a social, interactional perspective.
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This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students become more aware of and have practice in using appropriate formulaic responses to common situations.
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