One of the main causes of learners' non-target-like pragmatic performance is the misleading or incomplete input provided by pedagogical materials. As literature suggests, the classroom context is where pragmatic instruction can occur, and literature abounds with the fact that explicit instruction of the target language pragmatic rules is effective in acquiring pragmatic competence. The two approaches of explicit and implicit instructions are different in terms of the degrees of explanations provided in the class. In explicit instruction, learners are provided with rule explanations during...

The purpose of compilation of 'The Road Less Taken' is to help High Intermediate learners of English improve their study habits, learn more essential new words, enhance their awareness of the English grammar and writing skills and enjoy reading variously illustrated riddles and proverbs as well as acquiring miscellaneous information through history, culture, literature and wild life. It is an excellent tool for teaching different aspects of English and strongly prescribed for L2 teaching and learning community.

Reading is said to be a precise process that involves exact, detailed, sequential perception and identification of letters, words, spelling patterns and large units of language. In fact, it is an interaction between thought and language and as Kenneth S. Goodman has declared: "It is a psycholinguistic guessing game". The benefits of Reading are beyond dispute. There is literature proving that both Intensive and Extensive reading help EFL and ESL learners improve their vocabulary knowledge in particular and their overall language proficiency in general. The present book is a compilation of...

Formal and informal language serve different purposes. The tone, the choice of words and the way the words are put together vary between the two styles. Formal language is less personal than informal language. Informal language allows the use of nonstandard English forms, colloquial vocabulary and typically shorter sentence structures. Living among the target language community and hence having sufficient exposure to English language definitely leads to understanding and learning informal English. However, for those L2 learners who are deprived of such exposure, suitable related materials...