English language learning programs are always evolving to suit the needs of changing demands learners. In Saudi Arabia, solely focused on achieving proficiency through teaching learners’ vocabulary and grammar only, excluding other important constructs such as pragmatics. This research investigates relationship between pragmatic by administering an MDCT (multiple-choice discourse completion tas...

the purpose of the present study was to explore the effectiveness of raising iranian learners’ pragmatic awareness of intercultural rhetoric in enhancing their l2 writing ability, as well as their written complexity and accuracy. to this end, two 25-member groups of efl learners who were taking basic writing course at islamic azad university, roudehen branch, were selected based on their perfor...

This study contributes to the growing field of research on interlanguage pragmatic development with a study on the development of argumentative discourse ability by second language learners of German. I will be focusing on facework, that is, the use of verbal strategies that allow the speaker to have his or her social identities, particular personal qualities, and attributes validate...

Automated assessment of language proficiency of a test taker’s spoken response regarding its content, vocabulary, grammar and context depends largely upon how well the input speech can be recognized. While state-of-the-art, deep neural net based acoustic models have significantly improved the recognition performance of native speaker’s speech, good recognition is still challenging when the inpu...

Despite the growth in theoretical understandings of health behaviour and standardised approaches to health interventions (e.g. behaviour change taxonomies), health psychology has paid comparatively less attention to the importance of the implementation processes - 'how to' rather than 'what to' of such interventions. The clinical and interpersonal skills that often reflect these implementation ...

The use of politeness strategies can help interlocutors promote and/or maintain social harmony in telephone interactions. Using the Rapport Management Model proposed by Spencer-Oatey (2008), this study aimed primarily to reinvestigate the closing structures of telephone conversation (hereafter abbreviated as TC) in Persian and to discover the common politeness strategies used by native Persian ...

The article covers the issues concerning levels and criteria of preparatory department students' understanding scientific text. Teaching language presupposes work with texts at a proficiency level A1. When teaching how to text, one should consider its pragmatic, contents cognitive discourse functions. Understanding is multi-level psychological category, which determines foreign way reading Each...