William R. Acton

List of John Benjamins publications for which William R. Acton plays a role.

Articles

Van Dyke, Angelina and William R. Acton 2023 Role-play and dialogic meta-pragmatics in developing and assessing pragmatic competencePedagogical Linguistics 4:2, pp. 228–263 | Article
Role-play as a bridging and integrating practice in language teaching and development of pragmatic competence in learners is well-established. In an EAP classroom (Van Dyke & Acton, 2021) explored the impact of one fluency protocol, Cooperative Attending Skills Training, by which students were… read more
The question of how to teach toward social, cultural and linguistic L2 pragmatic competence has raised serious challenges (Kasper, 1997). This is more the case for spoken rather than written discourse. As can be expected, the underlying pragmatic implications of spontaneous face-to-face… read more