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Instructed pragmatics at a glance: Where instructional studies were, are, and should be going

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2015

Naoko Taguchi
Naoko Taguchi*
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Carnegie Mellon [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper brings together the research and developments of instructed pragmatics over the past three decades by reporting the synthesis findings of instructional intervention studies in interlanguage pragmatics. Two questions have guided this investigation: (1) is instruction effective in learning pragmatics?; and (2) what methods are most effective in learning pragmatics? Exhaustive electronic bibliographical searches yielded a body of 58 instructional intervention studies for the review. Findings across these studies are compared and explored for common patterns and inconsistencies that emerge among them. The paper concludes with implications for future research based on the survey of the existing practice.

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Language Teaching , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 1 - 50
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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