Month: August 2017

Competence and Internal Language | TESL Issues

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The role of imitation in language acquisition written and narrated by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Competence Competence corresponds to the I-language (Internal Language). Competency is the speaker/hearer’s knowledge of his language. It’s an abstract version of knowledge. Competency is independent of situation. It represent what the speaker knows in the abstract. The different types of competence are: grammatical competency, linguistic competency, communicative competency, pragmatic competency, Communicative Competency: Discourse Competency: The…

Speech Acts in Pragmatics | TESL Issues

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Politeness in sociolinguistics and pragmatics with examples and explanations

Speech Acts Speech acts are carried out over various turns and their exact shape takes into account interlocutor reactions. In other words, conversation is co-constructed by both interlocutors, which is something that can never be simulated with DCTs. Speech acts are certainly the most researched area of pragmatics, and they are arguably the most social,…

Evidence-Centered Design in Testing | TESL Issues

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Evidence-Centered Design Evidence-centered Design was developed by Mislevy. It is important that we see the tasks or items that we design for tests as part of a larger picture, and one approach to doing this in a systematic way is ECD, a methodology for test design and construction developed at Educational Testing Service (ETS). ECD is…

IELTS Writing Task 2 | Copyright Laws

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IELTS Writing Task 2 | Copyright Laws IELTS Writing Task 2 | Copyright Laws Topic Despite numerous attempts to protect and enforce copyright laws, it appears that there are still some people who violate the laws on copyrighted materials. Do you think more stringent laws should be passed to deter people from infringing copyright laws?…