Essays about: "pragmatic input"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words pragmatic input.

1. 1. "Grammar and syntax are of course important building blocks, but you need to know what it is you are building" : A Qualitative Study Investigating Nine Upper Secondary English Teachers' Awareness, Beliefs and Practices when Dealing with Pragmatics in the EFL Classroom

   University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

   Author : Malin Ringqvist; [2023]
   Keywords : Pragmatics; Pragmatic competence; EFL Classroom; Teacher Awareness and Beliefs; Interculturality;

   Abstract : This essay investigates nine upper secondary English teachers’ awareness, beliefs and practices when dealing with pragmatics in the EFL classroom in relation to the intercultural dimensions of the subject. The study was conducted using a phenomenological approach where nine semi-structured interviews with upper secondary English teachers were conducted. READ MORE

3. 2. The brain in conversation: Mapping the neural correlates of turn-taking, production, and comprehension using fMRI

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

   Author : Caroline Arvidsson; [2022]
   Keywords : turn-taking; production; comprehension; conversation; fMRI; speech planning; turtagning; produktion; förståelse; konversation; fMRI; språkplanering;

   Abstract : Conversation is the primary mode of language use. A key feature of conversation is turn-taking, during which interlocutors rapidly switch between speaker and listener roles without conscious effort. READ MORE

4. 3. The representation of speech acts in EFL textbooks in Sweden : An investigation of greetings, requests and refusals in input and output and teacher insights

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Cristina Alfranca Ramón; [2021]
   Keywords : Speech acts; requests; refusals; greetings; EFL textbooks; pragmatic competence;

   Abstract : The teaching of pragmatics is often neglected in foreign language classes despite the wellknown importance of pragmatic competence. No matter how well a learner masters thetarget language, errors of a pragmatic nature may lead to major communicative failure orturbulence. READ MORE

5. 4. Using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers for Conversational Machine Comprehension

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Evangelina Gogoulou; [2019]
   Keywords : conversational machine comprehension; question answering; transformers; self-attention; language modelling; samtalsmaskinförståelse; frågesvar; transformatorer; självuppmärksamhet; språkmodellering;

   Abstract : Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) is a recently proposed language representation model, designed to pre-train deep bidirectional representations, with the goal of extracting context-sensitive features from an input text [1]. One of the challenging problems in the field of Natural Language Processing is Conversational Machine Comprehension (CMC). READ MORE

6. 5. Learning how to make requests in English : Pragmatic input in Swedish EFL textbooks

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Anna Karlsson; [2019]
   Keywords : requests; EFL textbooks; speech acts; pragmatic input; pragmatic competence; uppmaningar; engelska läromedel; språkhandlingar; pragmatik; pragmatisk kompetens;

   Abstract : English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching should not only aim at providing learners with the linguistic resources to communicate in English, but also develop learners’ pragmatic competence in order for them to be able to use language efficiently and appropriately for different purposes. The present study examines what pragmatic input learners receive from two Swedish EFL textbook series regarding the speech act of request. READ MORE