Politeness In The Foreign Language Classroom

Author : Marc Felsbrecher
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668434301
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politeness in the Foreign Language-Classroom written by Marc Felsbrecher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, , language: English, abstract: It is the aim of this paper to analyze how politeness currently is – and how politeness potentially could be – taught in foreign language classrooms. The focus will be on how foreign language students are – or could be – instructed to perform speech acts that usually require forms of politeness. Teaching politeness will not be reduced to the introduction of cultural stereotypes and basic rules of behavior in language teaching, it will rather be understood as all forms of the pragmatic knowledge required to develop true intercultural communicative competence in the foreign language student. It is argued that currently teaching pragmatics only plays a minor role in foreign language teaching, but that this knowledge is crucial to build up intercultural communicative competence as it is demanded by the CEFR and foreign language curricula. To prove this thesis, current textbooks for teaching English as a foreign language will be examined for teaching activities that include aspects of foreign language pragmatics or politeness. In a subsequent chapter, the didactics and methodology of instructional pragmatics will be discussed on the basis of literature from the field of pedagogy.

Author : Malte Harms
Publisher : Grin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783668434318
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politeness in the Foreign Language-Classroom written by Malte Harms and published by Grin Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Hannover, language: English, abstract: It is the aim of this paper to analyze how politeness currently is - and how politeness potentially could be - taught in foreign language classrooms. The focus will be on how foreign language students are - or could be - instructed to perform speech acts that usually require forms of politeness. Teaching politeness will not be reduced to the introduction of cultural stereotypes and basic rules of behavior in language teaching, it will rather be understood as all forms of the pragmatic knowledge required to develop true intercultural communicative competence in the foreign language student. It is argued that currently teaching pragmatics only plays a minor role in foreign language teaching, but that this knowledge is crucial to build up intercultural communicative competence as it is demanded by the CEFR and foreign language curricula. To prove this thesis, current textbooks for teaching English as a foreign language will be examined for teaching activities that include aspects of foreign language pragmatics or politeness. In a subsequent chapter, the didactics and methodology of instructional pragmatics will be discussed on the basis of literature from the field of pedagogy.

Author : Barbara Pizziconi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501501674
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching and Learning (Im)Politeness written by Barbara Pizziconi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection combines research from the field of (im)politeness studies with research on language pedagogy and language learning. It aims to engender a useful dialogue between (im)politeness theorists, language teachers, and SLA researchers, and also to broaden the enquiry to naturalistic contexts other than L2 acquisition classrooms, by formulating 'teaching' and 'learning' as processes of socialization, cultural transmission, and adaptation.

Author : Gerrard Mugford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000784959
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a New Pedagogy for Teaching Foreign Language Politeness written by Gerrard Mugford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how foreign language speakers establish and maintain social and transactional relationships in their target language, and how pedagogic intervention can help learners implement practices that will allow them to participate and react in both socially acceptable and individualistically empowering ways. Arguing that ‘doing’ foreign-language politeness and culture does not simply involve the indiscriminate and uncritical adoption and implementation of target-language patterns and practices, the author advocates instead for active, judicious and even critical social action. As such, the book presents a dynamic and vibrant dimension to target language politeness and cultural practices, demonstrating that raising learners’ critical language awareness in identifying productive communicative resources and assets can lead to successful interpersonal and transactional communication. Building on this notion of a ‘positive’ pedagogy, Halliday’s model of ideational, interpersonal and textual is utilised as a framework for exploring how foreign language users can approach target language politeness in terms of prosocial, interpersonal and contested politeness, with reference to a study of Mexican speakers of English as a foreign language. Heightening awareness of foreign language politeness patterns and practices, as well as presenting knowledge and resources for overcoming challenges and accentuating benefits of a nuanced learning scheme for politeness in foreign language, this book will appeal to language educators, researchers and bilingual speakers. It will also benefit those working across pragmatics, sociolinguistics, TESOL, cultural studies.

Author : S. Song
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137030631
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politeness and Culture in Second Language Acquisition written by S. Song and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the importance of politeness in pragmatic expression and communication, making a significant contribution to the debate over whether the universal politeness theory is applicable globally regardless of cultural differences.

Author : Ian Walkinshaw
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039115273
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Politeness written by Ian Walkinshaw and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Japanese learners of English learned about managing politeness while they were studying at language schools in New Zealand. Specifically, it investigates how they learned to produce and interpret a range of disagreement strategies during oppositional talk with native speakers of English. Employing a combined qualitative and quantitative approach to data analysis, the book discusses the initial pragmatic competence of the learners, and describes how their competence developed over a ten-week period. The book outlines some points of cultural divergence which may have influenced the direction and the extent of the learners' pragmatic development. It also sheds light on the language-acquisition strategies utilised by the learners during their tenure in the host culture. Most crucially, the book illuminates patterns of directness and indirectness in the learners' selected disagreement strategies. These patterns challenge the generally accepted theory that politeness always increases with social distance.

Author : Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783034306119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speech Acts and Politeness Across Languages and Cultures written by Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is this latter dimension that has been at the centre of recent developments in pragmatics, and it is also the focus of this book. The aim of this book is to reflect this development, providing evidence from four main areas crucial to pragmatics across languages and cultures: a description of a variety of speech acts and politeness strategies in different languages and cultures, a cross-cultural comparison of several speech acts and patterns of politeness, an in-depth analysis of issues concerning the learning and teaching of speech acts and politeness in second/foreign languages, as well as some methodological resources in pragmatics. This book is intended for researchers, scholars and students interested in the field of pragmatics, in general, or in the fields of cross-cultural and second/foreign language pragmatics, and specifically for those interested in speech acts and politeness. It will also be useful to any scholar interested in how communication and culture are related.

Author : Christiane Dalton-Puffer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027219794
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms written by Christiane Dalton-Puffer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The label CLIL stands for classrooms where a foreign language (English) is used as a medium of instruction in content subjects. This book provides a first in-depth analysis of the kind of communicative abilities which are embodied in such CLIL classrooms. It examines teacher and student talk at secondary school level from different discourse-analytic angles, taking into account the interpersonal pragmatics of classroom discourse and how school subjects are talked into being during lessons. The analysis shows how CLIL classroom interaction is strongly shaped by its institutional context, which in turn conditions the ways in which students experience, use and learn the target language. The research presented here suggests that CLIL programmes require more explicit language learning goals in order to fully exploit their potential for furthering the learners' appropriation of a foreign language as a medium of learning.

Author : Bethan L. Davies
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441159495
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Situated Politeness written by Bethan L. Davies and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Author : Ar?n Bayraktaro?lu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781588110404
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries written by Ar?n Bayraktaro?lu and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes 14 papers investigating politeness phenomena in Greece and Turkey, the cultural cross-roads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It reflects current research and provides observations of and findings in patterns of linguistic politeness in a geographical area other than the much studied English speaking ones. The book appeals to professionals and students interested in a broader perspective of language use in its social context.Articles in the collection are empirically rather than theoretically oriented and examine realisations of politeness in relation to social parameters. The chapters have been arranged in pairs (Greek/Turkish), treating the following related issues: firstly a more general ethnographic picture of the two societies, the variables of power/status in classroom and other interaction, solidarity in advice-giving and the use of approbatory expressions, service encounters and the differential use of language by males and females, the use of interruptions in television talk, and finally compliments.