Developing Pragmatic Fluency in English as a Foreign Language:Routines and Metapragmatic Awareness

• DOI: 10.1017/s0272263100014893
• Publication Date: 2008-11-07T13:46:25Z
• Authors: Juliane House
• Keywords: 4. Education; 0602 languages and literature; 06 humanities and the arts

This study explores whether pragmatic fluency can best be acquired in the classroom by provision of input and opportunity for communicative practice alone, or learners profit more when additional explicit instruction use conversational routines is provided. It hypothesized that such raises learners' awareness functions contextual distributions routines, enabling them to become pragmatically fluent. Two versions a communication course taught advanced German English 14 weeks are examined, one version providing metapragmatic information, other withholding it. Samples tape-recorded conversations at various stages courses used assess how students' developed development benefits from awareness.