Publications

Publication details [#54918]

Wei, Ming. 2011. Investigating the oral proficiency of English learners in China: A comparative study of the use of pragmatic markers. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (14) : 3455–4372.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | markedness | oral proficiency interview | pragmatics | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores the oral use of pragmatic markers by college learners of English in China, in different contexts and at different proficiency levels. The results suggest that the proficiency level is linked to how pragmatic markers are employed both generally and across contextual variations.