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Teaching the language of advice in efl classrooms
Teaching the language of advice in efl classrooms

Author(s): Viorica Cebotaroş
Subject(s): Education, School education, Vocational Education, Higher Education
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: advice; culture; pragmatic competence; pragmatic failure; pragmatic instruction
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the role of pragmatic instruction in EFL classrooms, with a focus on the speech act of advice. After revealing some peculiarities of advice in the Anglo and Romanian cultures, it offers some activities that may contribute to raising learners’ pragmatic awareness regarding the functioning of this speech act in the Anglo culture.

  • Page Range: 51-56
  • Page Count: 6
  • Publication Year: 2019
  • Language: English