Teaching pragmatic awareness of spoken requests to Chinese EAP learners in the UK: Is explicit instruction effective?

System

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 240-250

  Halenko, Nicola ^a   Jones, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EAP; Instructional effects; Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP); Requests; Study abroad

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959349227     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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