Developing Pragmatic Competence in an Instructed Setting: The Effectiveness of Pedagogical Intervention in Greek EFL Learners’ Request Production

Using a short pedagogical intervention, a pretest-posttest design and baseline data (L1 English), the present study examined the effects of explicit instruction on the use of internal and external modification in requests among Greek Cypriot EFL learners. The findings revealed a complex picture with...

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Main Authors: Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Louiza Soteriadou, Loukia Taxitari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2018-09-01
Series:L2 Journal
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5c99b1zs