Sociocultural-Linguistics & Pragmatics It’s All in the Text: Building Receptive Pragmatics Ability Through Reading more

Sun, Nov 14, 15:25-15:50 Asia/Tokyo

This presentation will report on an approach to raising the pragmatics awareness of lower-level learners in an English program at a university in Japan, with a focus on building receptive pragmatics ability through reading. The presentation will explain the process of conducting informed analyses of texts in reading textbooks, and developing and collecting students’ responses to classroom activities and assessments designed to build L2 pragmatics ability and sensitivity to intercultural pragmatics.