Public service announcements (PSAs) are the official way for governments to inform,
educate and change public behaviour in order to reduce public health issues, such as Covid …

Purpose English instructors' pragmatic competence (PC) is an aspect of the overall
communicative competence forming the basis of language instructors' knowledge. Their …

It is pretty unanimously believed that communication would not make sense without
pragmatic knowledge, and the only solution to counter this problem is pragmatic instruction …

Developing pragmatic competence as a component of communicative competence has
been emphasized by many L2 scholars. This competence enables L2 learners to use their …

This paper intends to provide a range of possibilities for testing learners' interlanguage
pragmatic competence of request speech acts. A request speech act has scarcely been …

Foreign language learners in the military must develop and maintain intercultural pragmatic
competence to accomplish their missions in different cultural environments. The problem is …

Conversational implicatures can be difficult to interpret for learners of English. Several
studies have shown that English learners' comprehension of implicatures can be increased …

This study examined the differences between the effects of reasoning gap tasks and opinion
gap tasks on young EFL learners' classroom engagement. The participants comprised 63 …

This study assessed the effects of providing explicit pragmatic instruction on the
development of spoken pragmatic competence as exhibited in the understanding and …

Currently, the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is the most urgent threat to global public
health, becoming a hot issue in most, if not all. information sources around the world due to …