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Sponsored by Atama-ii Books
This practical session introduces a corpus-informed approach to teaching and assessing pragmatic competence in Japanese EFL classrooms. Participants will explore classroom-friendly explanations of pragmatic strategies, authentic student data, and useful rubrics for assessment. The emphasis is on functional language use and politeness strategies, and on demonstrating how to raise learner awareness of power, distance, and imposition using discourse-completion tasks. Teachers will get the tools they need to start integrating pragmatics instruction into everyday teaching.
Summary
This practical session introduces a corpus-informed approach to teaching and assessing pragmatic competence in Japanese EFL classrooms. Participants will explore classroom-friendly explanations of pragmatic strategies, authentic student data, and useful rubrics for assessment. The emphasis is on functional language use and politeness strategies, and on demonstrating how to raise learner awareness of power, distance, and imposition using discourse-completion tasks. Teachers will get the tools they need to start integrating pragmatics instruction into everyday teaching.
| Teaching Context | College and university education |
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