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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 …

Pragmatics and Speech Acts Theory | TESL Lessons

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The King’s Speech (2010) Movie Analysis & Film Criticism

Pragmatics Pragmatics refers to the field of study where linguistic features are considered in relation to users of the language. Researchers have investigated what speakers accomplish when they perform utterances in terms of (1) interactional acts, and (2) speech acts. Interactional acts give structure to the discourse by ensuring that one utterance leads smoothly to …

Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics | TESL Issues

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Classroom interaction in second language learning written by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Discourse analysis and pragmatics in second language acquisition Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics Discourse analysis serves as a device for systematically describing the kinds of interactions that occur in language classrooms. Drawing on initial work on content classrooms by Bellack (1966) and by the Birmingham School of linguistics (Sinclair & Coulthard (1975) discourse analysts give attention …