Zohreh Eslami
Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, College of Education and Human Development Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
[ 1 ] - A comparative sociopragmatic analysis of wedding invitations in American and Iranian societies and teaching implications
Wedding invitations (WIs), as a uniquely socially and culturally constructed genre, provide a distinct opportunity to compare the sociocultural values of different speech communities as reflected in the textual content and organization of the different moves. Students can be exposed to this genre and its different moves using a genre-based pedagogy. Genre-based ped...
[ 2 ] - Motivation, amount of interaction, length of residence, and ESL learners’ pragmatic competence
This study examined how motivation for learning English, the amount of contact with English, and length of residence in the target language area affects Korean graduate students’ English pragmatic skills. The study attempted to account for differential pragmatic development among 50 graduate-level Korean students in relation to individual factors mentioned above. The data were...
[ 3 ] - Iranian Non-native English Speaking Teachers’ Rating Criteria Regarding the Speech Act of Compliment: An Investigation of Teachers’ Variables
Among topics in the field of pragmatics, some seem to be in a more rigorous need of investigation. Pragmatic assessment and specifically the issue of pragmatic rating are among issues which deserve more thorough consideration. The purpose of this study was to examine rater criteria and its consistency and variability in the assessment of Iranian EFL learners’ production of compliments based on ...
[ 4 ] - Investigating Non-Native English Speaking Graduate Students’ Pragmatic Development in Requestive Emails
The present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of 99 requestive emails addressed to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. Most previous studies mainly investigated how non-native English speaking students’ (NNESs) pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native English speaking students (NESs) and compared learners ...
[ 5 ] - Learning Pragmatics through Computer-Mediated Communication in Taiwan
This study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Taiwan. The goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on EFL learners’ pragmatic competence. Second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...
[ 6 ] - راهبردهای بیان تقاضا: مقایسه ی فارسی آموزان خارجی با فارسی زبانان
پژوهش حاضر به مقایسهی راهبردهای بیان تقاضا بین دو گروهِ فارسیآموزان خارجی سطوح مقدماتی و پیشرفته، و فارسی‌‌زبانان بومی میپردازد. آزمودنیها شامل سی و سه دانشجوی فارسی‌زبان دانشگاه پیام نور شهر تهران در مقطع کارشناسی ارشد، سی و هفت فارسیآموز خارجی سطح مقدماتی، و سی و هفت فارسیآموز خارجی سطح پیشرفتهی مرکز آموزش زبان فارسی دانشگاه بینالمللی امام خمینی(ره) شهر قزوین میباشند. برای گردآوری دا...
[ 7 ] - The Effect of Metapragmatic Awareness, Interactive Translation, and Discussion through Video-Enhanced Input on EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Implicature
It is substantiated that particular features of pragmatics are teachable, and instruction is both necessary and effective. Determining what kind of intervention is most effectual for facilitating learners’ pragmatic development has been a central issue for researchers. To respond to the inconclusive findings in intervention studies and to extend the instructional studies in L2 pragmatics to les...
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