Communication Strategies

Communication Strategies

Author: Gabriele Kasper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1317894618

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This book examines the topic of communication strategies, the ways in which people seek to express themselves or understand what someone else is saying or writing. Typically, the term has referred to the strategies that non-native speakers use to address the linguistic and pragmatic problems encountered in interactions with native and non-native speakers of the language in question. Studies adopting a psycholinguistic perspective are well represented and updated in this volume. Other chapters re-examine communication strategies from a sociolinguistic perspective, exploring the strategies non-native speakers and their conversational partners use to create shared meanings in ongoing discourse. These studies reveal how communication strategies can serve to construct participants' identities and social relationships. Finally, the book incorporates a number of chapters which cover strategy-like behaviour in other related areas, such as language pathology, child bilingualism, normal native adult interaction, and mother tongue education. These studies add fresh dimensions to the study of communication strategies, showing how the concept can usefully be extended beyond the realm of second language acquisition and use, and pointing out the commonalities in many domains of language behaviour.


Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition

Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition

Author: Vivian Cook

Publisher: Red Globe Press

Published: 1993-07-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0333555341

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This book covers approaches to second language research that in some way conform to the agenda of linguistics. It presents the actual methodology and results of research rather than just the conclusions or interpretations. It covers the main current theories, research methods and techniques, and it considers the crucial problems involved in relating Second Language Acquisition to linguistics.


Interlanguage Pragmatics

Interlanguage Pragmatics

Author: Gabriele Kasper

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1993-08-05

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 019536211X

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As a field of inquiry, interlanguage pragmatics reflects the growing interest in recent years in understanding the social and pragmatic aspects of second language acquisition. Interlanguage Pragmatics offers an up-to-date synthesis of current research in the field, documenting from diverse perspectives the development, comprehension, and production of pragmatic knowledge in a second language. The book consists of three sections. The first concerns cognitive approaches to interlanguage pragmatic development; the second, interlanguage speech act realization of a variety of speech acts; and the third, discoursal perspectives on interlanguage. Each section is prefaced by an introduction by the editors which provides relevant theoretical and methodological background. The editors' general introduction offers a critical overview of the issues currently debated. This book is the first to exclusively address the pragmatic dimension in second language acquistion, presenting a state-of-the-art view of the field and outlining directions for future research.


Communication strategies : learning and teaching how to manage oral interaction

Communication strategies : learning and teaching how to manage oral interaction

Author: Luciano Mariani

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1445779536

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What do you do when you need to express the meaning of a word that you don’t know in a foreign language? How do you start and close a conversation, and how do you keep it going? What can you do if you are not sure about what to say in an unfamiliar situation?Communication strategies is a book about the ways and means that users of a second or foreign language can employ when they have to face problems due to gaps in their linguistic, communicative or intercultural competence. Strategies also enable them to deal with uncertainty in personal and intercultural contacts and to increase their autonomy in using languages.Communication strategies is both a handbook for teachers, teacher trainers and educators, providing them with a sound methodological background, and a collection of 30 practice activities, games and tasks for language learners and users. Photocopiable worksheets are provided, as well as freely downloadable recordings of native and non-native speakers of English.


Foreign/second Language Pedagogy Research

Foreign/second Language Pedagogy Research

Author: Robert Phillipson

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Research studies, theoretical and empirical, from Europe and North America. The 21 articles cover applied linguistics in a historical perspective, learner language, learner strategies and processes, classroom research, and pragmatics and social competence.


Interlanguage Refusals

Interlanguage Refusals

Author: Noël Houck

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-10-18

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 3110809877

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Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.


Language Output, Communication Strategies and Communicative Tasks

Language Output, Communication Strategies and Communicative Tasks

Author: Cynthia Fong King Lee

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780761828860

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This innovative book examines the relationship between foreign (L2) language acquisition and task-based learning from an output perspective, with a concentration on the learner's discourse and retrospection. Author Cynthia Lee explores this issue in an experimental context; with particular reference to Hong Kong Chinese tertiary learners of English. Lee's study contributes to research on L2 acquisition and casts light on task-based learning and pedagogy in Hong Kong classrooms and beyond. English language teaching practitioners, researchers, and applied linguists will find special value in this book.