{"pk":2142,"title":"Developing Pragmatic Competence in an Instructed Setting: The Effectiveness of Pedagogical Intervention in Greek EFL Learners’ Request Production","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Using a short   pedagogical intervention, a pretest-posttest design and baseline data (L1   English), the present study examined the effects of explicit instruction on   the use of internal and external modification in requests among Greek Cypriot   EFL learners. The findings revealed a complex picture with mixed results.   Even though external modification showed some positive effects after the   intervention, the study revealed no gains in relation to the overall use of   internal modification as the learners’ overall use of lexical/phrasal   mitigators deviated even more from NS usage after the pedagogical treatment.   We argue that, in relation to the learners’ pragmalinguistic performance, the   results seem to confirm the fact that surrounding factors such as the   duration, quantity and quality of the pedagogical intervention play a complex   role in accounting for such mixed findings. Results further showed that the   way learners perceived social reality was not affected by the instructional   treatment. Our findings suggest that learners’ sociopragmatic development may not be as easily amenable to teaching as pragmalinguistic   development. The development of L2 sociopragmatic awareness seems to need   both longer explicit pedagogical instruction and rich exposure to the target language environment.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"pedagogical intervention, requests, modification, pragmatic competence"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5c99b1zs","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Maria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Economidou-Kogetsidis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Nicosia","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Louiza","middle_name":"","last_name":"Soteriadou","name_suffix":"","institution":"Institute of Education, University College London, UK","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Loukia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Taxitari","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2017-02-15T11:06:52-08:00","date_accepted":"2017-02-15T11:06:52-08:00","date_published":"2018-09-10T13:10:21-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2142/galley/1391/download/"}]}