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8 - Using Self-Access Materials to Learn Pragmatics in the US Academic Setting

What Do Indonesian EFL Learners Pick Up?

from Part II - Instructed Pragmatics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

By
Ananda Astrini Muhammad
Edited by
Nicola Halenko  and
Jiayi Wang
Nicola Halenko
Affiliation:
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Jiayi Wang
Affiliation:
De Montfort University, Leicester
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Summary

Learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) typically do not have enough opportunities to develop their pragmatic competence, as their language learning activities often rely on textbooks (Kim & Hall, 2002) which are inadequate sources of pragmatic input (Ren & Han, 2016; Vellenga, 2004). Therefore, when EFL students become international students in an English-speaking country, they are likely to face communication struggles. This study explores the use of self-access materials including self-paced instructional videos, tasks, and reflection activities about requests in spoken and email communication within the US academic setting. Analysis of twenty-one Indonesian EFL learners’ responses to the tasks, self-evaluation, and questionnaires showed more varied formulation of request strategies, a shift towards using more hearer-oriented strategies, and raised awareness of contextual details (e.g., degree of imposition, power relationship, social distance). Findings suggest that learners can benefit from learning the pragmatics of US academic settings with the aid of self-access language learning materials.

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Indonesian EFL learnersself-access materialscomputer-assisted language learningacademic settingemailsoral communicationrequests
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Pragmatics in English Language Learning , pp. 200 - 227
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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