An Investigation into How B2-C2 Level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learners Display Their Pragmatic Competence in Speaking
The importance of testing second language (L2) learners’ pragmatic competence is becoming evident following increasing research (e.g. Ross and Kasper, 2013). Current pragmatic tests mainly use the Speech Act Theory as a theoretical framework and discourse completion tasks (DCTs) as test instruments...
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Language: | English |
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University of Latvia Press
2018-06-01
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Series: | Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture |
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Online Access: | https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/378 |