Discourse
Pragmatics
Phonology/Listening
Grammar/Vocabulary
Your Questions
100
language forms produced and interpreted as people communicate with each other
What is discourse?
100
knowledge of syntax and lexical semantics in the target language
What is lexicogrammatical competence?
100
the suprasegmental features
What is prosody?
100
reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjuction
What are four types of cohesive ties?
100
a speaker uses the same patterns from his L1 when communciating in his L2
What is pragmatic transfer?
200
reflects the degree of formality
What is register?
200
the study of the relationships between the use and meaning of linguistic utterances and the social situations within which they are produced
What is pragmatics?
200
background information on the topic
What is content schemata?
200
two approaches one can take in investigating the relationship between grammar and discourse
What are macropragmatic and microanalytic approaches?
200
rendez-vous, anathema, karate are all examples of this
What is lexical borrowing?
300
involves the transmission of information
What is transactional discourse?
300
avoids impostition
What is negative politeness?
300
the systematic resources of sound, pitch, and rhythm that allow spoken discourse to be encoded and decoded
What is phonology?
300
The distiction between these two types of words is helpful in analyzing vocabulary
What are content and function words?
300
Compounding, Affixation, Conversion
What are the Productive processes of word formation?
400
Results from the use of various devices to link together all propositions in a text
What cohesion?
400
quality, quantity, relation, and manner
What are Grice's maxims ?
400
invlolves the planning, regulating, monitoring,a nd management of listening
What is metacognition?
400
the loo, the W.C. the john, the potty are all examples of this
What is euphemism?
400
Four types of Cohesive Types (Halliday and Hasan, 1976)
What are Reference, Substitution, Ellipsis, Conjunction
500
the ability to apply complex cognitive skills automatically in appropriate ways without even thinking about them
What is procedural knowledge?
500
what allows the listener or reader to make inferences based on what is said or written
What are presupposition and implication?
500
room temperature, distractions, or being in a test-taking situation are all examples of this
What are non-linguistic situation-specific factors?
500
According to Nation (1990) these are the most important of all ways for students to learn vocabulary
What are strategies?
500
In some languages it is considered good style to simply repeat the same word several times whereas in other langauges it is necessary to vary repetitions and use different synonyms to achieve good style
What is repetition or reiteration?
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