Teaching and Testing Pragmatics

The Handbook of Language Teaching

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 560-577

  Roever, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessments of pragmatics and issue of context; Language users' pragmatic knowledge knowledge of sociopragmatics and pragmalinguistics; Learning pragmatics and pragmatic competence structure; Pragmalinguistic knowledge linguistic tools for implementing speech intentions; Pragmatic competence in models of communicative competence; Pragmatics amenable to instructional interventions; Pragmatics viewed as study of language in use; Pragmatics learning model; Teaching and testing pragmatics; Teaching techniques and materials design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856933864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444315783.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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