Publications

Publication details [#56254]

Nguyen, Thi Thuy Minh, Thi Hanh Pham and Minh Tam Pham. 2012. The relative effects of explicit and implicit form-focused instruction on the development of L2 pragmatic competence. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (4) : 416–434.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

explicitness | form | instructing1 | L2-acquisition | pragmatic competence

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study argues that explicit outperforms implicit form-focused instruction in the L2 pragmatic competence development of the speech act set of constructive criticism by sixty-nine Vietnamese learners of English.