Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction

The present study attempts to investigate the degree of pragmatic awareness of learners of English as a foreing language and also whether explicit instruction facilitates the learners’ interpretation of these implicatures. For this purpose, twenty-six students were assigned to an experimental and c...

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Main Authors:	Luciana María Cignetti, María Salomé Di Giuseppe
Format:	Article
Language:	deu
Published:	Universidad Nebrija 2015-11-01
Series:	Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas
Subjects:	conversational implicature awareness explicit instruction
Online Access:	https://revistas.nebrija.com/revista-linguistica/article/view/282

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spelling	doaj-82e71f05e5884568b9285e253a13eadf2020-11-25T03:19:32ZdeuUniversidad NebrijaRevista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas1699-65692015-11-011910.26378/rnlael019282Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instructionLuciana María Cignetti0María Salomé Di Giuseppe1National University of Litoral (Argentina)National University of Litoral (Argentina) The present study attempts to investigate the degree of pragmatic awareness of learners of English as a foreing language and also whether explicit instruction facilitates the learners’ interpretation of these implicatures. For this purpose, twenty-six students were assigned to an experimental and control group and their performance was measured through a written multiplechoice test before and after the treatment. The analysis of the data indicated that most students in both groups proved to be rather insensitive to implicatures before instruction. However, after being exposed to explicit teaching, the students in the experimental group exhibited a significant improvement in their recovery of implicatures. https://revistas.nebrija.com/revista-linguistica/article/view/282conversational implicatureawarenessexplicit instruction
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author	Luciana María Cignetti María Salomé Di Giuseppe
spellingShingle	Luciana María Cignetti María Salomé Di Giuseppe Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas conversational implicature awareness explicit instruction
author_facet	Luciana María Cignetti María Salomé Di Giuseppe
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title	Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction
title_short	Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction
title_full	Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction
title_fullStr	Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction
title_full_unstemmed	Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction
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publisher	Universidad Nebrija
series	Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas
issn	1699-6569
publishDate	2015-11-01
description	The present study attempts to investigate the degree of pragmatic awareness of learners of English as a foreing language and also whether explicit instruction facilitates the learners’ interpretation of these implicatures. For this purpose, twenty-six students were assigned to an experimental and control group and their performance was measured through a written multiplechoice test before and after the treatment. The analysis of the data indicated that most students in both groups proved to be rather insensitive to implicatures before instruction. However, after being exposed to explicit teaching, the students in the experimental group exhibited a significant improvement in their recovery of implicatures.
topic	conversational implicature awareness explicit instruction
url	https://revistas.nebrija.com/revista-linguistica/article/view/282
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Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction

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