Addressing Difficult Situations in Foreign-Language Learning: Confusion, Impoliteness, and Hostility

ISBN-13: 9781138336902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 198 str.

Gerrard Mugford

Opis

By constructing a student-centred pedagogical model around the data collected, the author considers the choices available to language learners in difficult situations, as well as tools for language learners to develop pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic resources.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Choice: Importance of face and stance  2. Facing up to difficult situations: confronting confusion  3. Impoliteness: positionality and adopting a stance   4. Hostile and aggressive situations: formulating a response   5. Pedagogy: raising awareness and stance-taking   Conclusions   Appendix 1: Questionnaire: Negative Incidents  Appendix 2. Questionnaire: Impolite / Rude Incidents  Appendix 3. Questionnaire: Hostile Incidents  References

O autorze

Gerrard Mugford is a Senior Lecturer in the Modern Languages Department at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.