Assessing Pragmatic Competence in the Japanese EFL Context Towards the Learning of Listener Responses 1st Edition by Pino Cutrone ISBN 1443867608 9781443867603

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ISBN 10: 1443867608 
ISBN 13: 9781443867603
Author: Pino Cutrone

With a focus on intercultural communication between Japanese and Americans, this book describes how differing listening styles and conversational behaviours across cultures can negatively influence intercultural communication. Responding to the many calls for studies examining the teachability of listener responses in the language classroom, the author investigates whether listener responses would be a suitable target for instruction in the EFL/ESL classroom, and, if so, what instructional methods are best suited to teaching this elusive aspect of pragmatic competence. By addressing these issues, this book provides exciting and novel insights into various aspects of applied linguistics. By supplementing language data and questionnaires with retrospective and longitudinal research techniques, the author is able to present a much richer description and deeper understanding of how and why participants used listener responses in the manner they did. With the findings supporting an explicit approach to teaching listener responses, this book provides language practitioners with a direction in which to move forward. Beyond this practical application, this study sheds new light into such theoretical debates as the role of consciousness in language teaching (the Explicit vs. Implicit debate), the universality of Grice’s theory of conversation and the potentially differing conceptualisations of politeness across cultures.

Assessing Pragmatic Competence in the Japanese EFL Context Towards the Learning of Listener Responses 1st Table of contents:

Chapter One: Introduction

• Background and Motivation

• Statement of Problem

• Research Questions

• Significance of the Study

Chapter Two: Literature Review

• Pragmatic Competence Development in Second Language Acquisition

• Explicit Instructions for Learners’ Pragmatic Development in EFL Classrooms

• Textbook Evaluation for Teaching Pragmatics in EFL Contexts

Chapter Three: Methodology

• Introduction

• Materials and Data Collection

• Theoretical Framework

• Coding Scheme

  • Coding Scheme for Analyzing Student Books

  • Coding Scheme for Analyzing Teacher’s Manuals

• Data Analysis

Chapter Four: Results and Discussion

• Pragmatic Elements in Six Textbooks and Explicit Instructions in Six Teacher Manuals

  • Volume 1

  • Volume 2

  • Volume 3

  • Volume 4

  • Volume 5

  • Volume 6

• Summary of Results and Discussions for Research Questions One and Three

• The Relationships Between Invisible Pragmatic Elements and English Uses in the Textbooks

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