Abstract

The current discussion focuses on teaching the speech act of offer-accept/deny a gift to an adult refugee target group that learns Greek as a second language and investigates the progress of the learners’ pragmatic competence as a result of targeted exposition to the speech act. The steps of the guidance towards the pragmatic norms of L2 are being elaborated and learners’ pragmatic output is being assessed over pragmatic failure. We argue in favor of explicit teaching the pragmatic aspect of L2, which is connected with the basic principles of functional literacy model framing our theoretical approach.

Full Text
Published version (Free)

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call