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Publication details [#52971]

Lee, Cynthia. 2010. An exploratory study of the interlanguage pragmatic comprehension of young learners of English. Pragmatics 20 (3) : 343–373.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interlanguage | L2-acquisition | pragmatic competence | speech act, L2-acquisition of | testing

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study describes the developmental patterns of the interlanguage pragmatic comprehension of young Cantonese learners of English L2, based on their achievement in a multiple-choice comprehension test, containing five direct and indirect speech acts in contextualised dialogues.