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ERIC Number: ED585245
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 12
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Developing Pragmatic Competence through Language Digital Resources
Kaliska, Marta
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According to Kasper (1992), L2 pragmatic knowledge affects all communicative acts. It can be described as the speaker's ability both to adapt linguistic formulae to social contextual constraints and to understand the implications of indirect utterances. The Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) describes pragmatic competence as an integral component of communicative language competence. It relates to "the functional use of linguistic resources, production of language functions, speech acts, drawing on scenarios or scripts of interactional exchanges; it also concerns the mastery of discourse, cohesion and coherence, the identification of text types and forms, irony and parody" (CEFR, 2001, p. 13). The present article aims at providing some useful examples of tasks created on the basis of language digital resources, such as language corpora, online forums, and communities where learners can observe language used in digital communication in order both to attain pragmatic knowledge and enhance their language skills. The proposed tasks were implemented in the Italian courses at B1/B2 level organised by the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw in the years 2014-2015. Such tasks constituted additional activities within a conversational module focused on developing communicative competence in which pragmatic abilities and sociocultural knowledge play a crucial role. [For the complete volume, "Using Digital Resources to Enhance Language Learning: Case Studies in Italian," see ED585224.]
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Poland
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