Assessing Pragmatic Competence in the Japanese EFL Context: Towards the Learning of Listener Responses Cutrone Pino
Assessing Pragmatic Competence in the Japanese EFL Context: Towards the Learning of Listener Responses Cutrone Pino With a focus on intercultural communication between Japanese and Americans, this…
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Assessing Pragmatic Competence in the Japanese EFL Context: Towards the Learning of Listener Responses Cutrone Pino
With a focus on intercultural communication between Japanese and Americans, this book describes how differing listening styles and conversational behaviours across cultures can negatively influence intercultural communication. By addressing these issues, this book provides exciting and novel insights into various aspects of applied linguistics. Responding to the many calls for studies examining the teachability of listener responses in the language classroom, the author investigates whether listener responses would be a suitable target for instruction in the EFL/ESL classroom, and, if so, what instructional methods are best suited to teaching this elusive aspect of pragmatic competence.
By supplementing language data and questionnaires with retrospective and longitudinal research techniques, the author is able to present a much richer description and deeper understanding of how and why