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    "pk": 2093,
    "title": "Creating a Social Context Through Film: Teaching L2 Pragmatics as a Locally Situated Process",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Pragmatics is an underrepresented area in L2 instruction, in spite of disciplinary emphasis on communicative skills (de Pablos-Ortega, 2011; Eisenchlas, 2011). Films have been shown to be capable of mitigating this lack of pedagogically prepared materials (Abrams, 2014; Kambara, 2011; Fernández-Guerra, 2008; Grant & Starks, 2001; Washburn, 2001), and may provide scaffolding for teaching pragmatics as a dynamic, context-dependent phenomenon. In line with current research in pragmatics, wherein participants’ motivations, communicative purpose, and social context play significant roles in communication (Boxer, 2002; Kecskés, 2006, 2012; LoCastro, 2011; Scollon & Wong-Scollon, 2003), the present study compares how authentic filmic materials—in contrast with textbook models—help participants develop pragmatic skills that reflect a locally contextualized, emergent view of interaction. Collaborative dialogues of thirty first-year learners of German at a U.S. university were analyzed using interactional sociolinguistics (Piazza, Bednarek, & Rossi, 2011; Tannen, 2005, 2006). Results indicate that film-based dialogues prompted more pragmatically nuanced interactions than did textbook tasks.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "L2 pragmatics"
        },
        {
            "word": "locally situated interaction"
        },
        {
            "word": "film"
        },
        {
            "word": "social context in L2 learning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Article",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4j89k6k7",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Zsuzsanna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Abrams",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Santa Cruz",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2016-04-28T04:22:57Z",
    "date_accepted": "2016-04-28T04:22:57Z",
    "date_published": "2016-09-27T00:06:12Z",
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            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2093/galley/1376/download/"
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}