What is it about?
This paper studies the effect of explicit instruction on the speech act of disagreement to a group of linguistically proficient students, who nonetheless found it challenging to express disagreement in their L2 (English). It analyses the pre and post performance in an educational forum, using naturally produced data.
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Why is it important?
Disagreement has often been studied by means of 'artificial' tools such as questionnaires or DCTs (Discourse completion tests). In this article, I used naturally occurring data as produced by a group of multicultural students in an educational forum. Hence, it also studies computer-mediated communication in a real collaborative piece of work rather than face-to-face disagreement.
Perspectives
I personally think that this article may contribute to the debate whether pragmatic competence is acquired or learnt (or a combination of both). It also focuses on the field of computer-mediated communication rather than analysing face-to-face interaction since it focuses on the real production of multicultural students in an educational e-forum.
Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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This page is a summary of: “I’m sorry I don’t agree with you”, Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, December 2014, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/resla.27.2.09mai.
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