Developing Pragmatic Competence in a Foreign Language

This article presents a theoretical discussion about the inclusion of explicit pragmatic instruction as a facilitative tool to develop pragmatic competence in a foreign language. Given the theoretically and empirically informed fact that this competence is generally neglected in the classroom, the r...

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Main Author: Yined Tello Rueda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas 2011-04-01
Series:Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal
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Online Access:http://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/ojs/index.php/calj/article/view/177