ABSTRACT |
Given the feasibility, necessity and relevance of teaching pragmatics in
EFL contexts and the impossibility to do it through most of the
currently available textbooks, this paper presents a series of planned
classroom activities based on audiovisual resources (i.e. featured
films). Our teaching proposal on requestive behaviour, addressed to
university or adult Spanish EFL learners, draws on some findings of
previous interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) research. That is why it
develops a raising-awareness approach aimed at developing receptive
pragmatic knowledge on contextual and social appropriateness.
Appropriateness is an aspect acquired much later than the
pragmalinguistic side of ILP and whose difficulty calls for taking into
account factors such as the impact of ILP processes (e.g.
overgeneralization) and/or the possible learning effects (e.g.
avoidance) derived from stereotyping or previous classroom experiences.
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