TW1&2
What is one piece of information you have learned from these weeks?
Open answer
What are some sources of data that teachers need in in pragmatics lesson?
Intuition introspection (unreliable data)
Discourse Completion Tasks and role plays
Field observation
What is Conversational Implicature?
Conversational implicatures are implied by the speaker in making an utterance. They are part of the content of the utterance, but do not contribute to direct utterance content and are not encoded by the linguistic meaning of what has been uttered.
What is Speech Act and what are Speech Act Sets?
The use of language to perform some acts; Actions performed via utterances.
There is no one way to perform certain speech acts, but multiple strategies to choose from. This set of possibilities creates a Speech Act Set.
What are 5 categories of learner divergence?
Negative transfer of pragmatic norms Limited grammatical ability in the L2 Overgeneralization of perceived L2 pragmatic norms Effect of instruction or instructional materials Resistance to using perceived pragmatic norms
What is Felicity Condition?
It is appropriacy of condition and proposal of a correct person who claim the statement.
What are contextual factors and why is contextual analysis important?
Contextual factors are social distance, status, intensity of the act / severity of the cause. They affect our language use and define the level of politeness, directness and formality and length of our speech with others.
Define the following terms: Learner's Subjective Disposition and Cultural Imposition
Learners’ subjective disposition - Social or cultural identity, sense of value, attitudes, beliefs and principles influence use of the L2 norms.
Cultural imposition - Forcing foreign culture onto learners by exercise of power.
What is face theory?
Every member of a society has a public self-image, or “face” (Brown and Levinson, 1987). Face is the positive public image people seek to establish in social interaction.
Compare locutionary and illocutionary acts
Locutionary act is actual meaning/word of the message. Illocutionary act is what speaker means to convey (intended meaning).
Compare deductive and inductive classroom instruction in pragmatics lesson.
Deductive instruction: Teachers begin with instruction and provide explicit information about pragmatics before learners study examples
Inductive instruction: Learners analyze pragmatic data to discover L2 pragmatic norms that govern various language uses.
Cooperative Principles: Define Maxims of Conversation?
Quality
Quantity
Relevance
Manner
Provide examples of speech act strategies for request and invitation.
Request: Attention getter-Head act-Supportive move.
Invitation: Pre-invitations-Surveying-Notifying Responding to invitations:Accepting or rejecting
Suggest one awareness-raising task with socio-pragmatic focus that help students avoid negative transfer of pragmatic norms.
Contrast dialogues
Field observations
DCTs and role plays
What aspects of lesson should teachers analyze when they observe pragmatics lessons?
Lesson objectives; level appropriateness of the selected materials and the contents; awareness-raising tasks and their application in the right stages of the lesson; input and output opportunities; teaching and assessment methods, etc.