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Pragmatic competence in Spanish L2 in Czech students. Analysis and teaching proposal through email.
ÁLVAREZ VALLEJO, Alfonso
The email is one of the most stablished digital ways of communication for daily interactions. Politeness strategies play a key role in communication for this to be appropriate, so they are essential for the correct competences development in any student of a L/2. This research contrasts politeness strategies in Czech students of Spanish L/2 and their performance in written interactions. Thereby, we propose a model for a Syllabus to work with politeness and textual cohesion
Linguistic pragmatics in Teaching of Czech as a foreign language
Mašín, Jaroslav ; Šebesta, Karel (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Milan (referee) ; Škodová, Svatava (referee)
The focus of dissertation belongs to the field of learning Czech as a foreign language and deals with the acquisition of pragmatic competence of non-native speakers. Whereas this is a broad area, the work concentrates on speech act request. The aim is to describe how two students of Czech acquired the speech act during a one-year intensive course. The theoretical background is given in Chapter I. The term Interlanguage Pragmatics is introduced to Czech readers. The Chapter further maps what the pragmatic research of non- native speakers generally deals with and what questions it asks. Attention is paid to possible methods for collecting data for research of pragmatic competence, what kinds of errors non- native speakers usually make, what environment is suitable for the acquisition of pragmatic competence or how individual differences among students affects pragmatic competence. In the second chapter attention is paid to speech act request. We present an overview of major longitudinal studies. On the bass of this longitudinal research it was found that students of English go through five stages of development when acquiring request. The stages are presented here in detail. In the research part of the dissertation the investigation of how two non-native speakers (a student from Taiwan and a student...

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