82-888: Topics in Second Language Acquisition: Pragmatics
This course aims to enhance students¿ awareness of pragmatic implications in their every day communication, as well as issues that L2 learners face when learning the implications in their course of L2 development. The goal of this course is twofold. First, this course will help students to develop techniques to analyze the linguistic means that people use to achieve pragmatic functions in real life communication. The techniques will be drawn from frameworks within traditional pragmatic theories and approaches (e.g., Speech Act Theory, Relevance Theory, Grice¿s maxims). Students will apply these techniques to analyze communicative practices in authentic spoken and written materials (in their L1 or L2). The second goal is to have students to critically examine applications of pragmatic theories to L2 research in three broad areas: L2 use, development, and pedagogy, which encompass four major strands in the existing literature: - Application to interlanguage analysis- Application to the models of L2 competence and proficiency- Application to the analysis of L2 development- Application to L2 instruction Through critical examinations of the literature in the four strands, students will develop understanding of the role of pragmatics in L2 research and teaching.
| A | M | 03:30 pm - 05:50 pm | BH A54 | Taguchi |