Developing pragmatic competence in students of Spanish FL: A Data-Driven Approach
Abstract
This paper reports on an action research which investigated the use of a purpose-built, teaching-oriented corpus, as described in Timmis (2015), to tackle Spanish FL learners’ lack of pragmatic awareness as consistently reported in interlanguage pragmatics studies over the past two decades (García García, 2012, Ruiz Fajardo, 2012, Gironzetti and Koike, 2016). The activities designed to be used with this corpus are based on Consciousness Raising and Data Driven Learning approaches and the results of this research provide empirically validated evidence of the positive impact that such materials may have in developing pragmatic awareness in learners of Spanish as a foreign language.
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pragmatic awareness, consciousness raising, data-driven learning, pedagogic corpus, action researchReferences
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