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Volume 25, Number 1 – May 2021

A Word from the Editors… pdf (pdf)


Special Issue on Teaching, Learning, Assessing, and Researching L2 Pragmatics in Honor of Prof. Zohreh R. Eslami

Foreword to the Special Issue
Ali Derakhshan & Andrew Cohen, Editorspdf (pdf)

Special Issue Articles

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig & Yunwen Su, The Effect of ESL vs. EFL Environment on the Selection of Conventional Expressions on a Multiple-Choice DCT; pdf (pdf)

Ali Dabbagh & Esmat Babaii, L1 Pragmatic Cultural Schema and Pragmatic Assessment: Variations in Non-Native Teachers’ Scoring Criteria; pdf (pdf)

Azizullah Mirzaei & Reza Parhizkar, The Interplay of L2 Pragmatics and Learner Identity as a Social, Complex Process: A Poststructuralist Perspective, pdf (pdf)

Ali Derakhshan & Ali Malmir, The Impact of Aptitude on the Learning of L2 Pragmatics as Predictor of L2 Speech-Act Knowledge; pdf (pdf)

Amir Zand-Moghadam & Fatemeh Mohandes Samani, The Effect of Information-gap, Reasoning-gap, and Opinion-gap Tasks on EFL Learners’ Pragmatic Production, Metapragmatic Awareness, and Comprehension of Implicature; pdf (pdf)

Marziyeh Yousefi & Hossein Nassaji, Corrective Feedback in L2 Pragmatics: A Review of Research; pdf (pdf)

Shaun Weihong Ko & Zohreh Eslami, Developing Pragmatic Competence in Digital Game Worlds; pdf (pdf)

Boudjemaa Dendenne, Compliments, Self-Praise, and Self-Denigration among Nonnative English Users in an Online Setting; pdf (pdf)

Azizeh Chalak, Self-Praise and Self-Presentation by Iranian EFL Learners on Instagram; pdf (pdf)

Alyssa Kermad, “From the Sound, it Look Like He Said it from the Deep in his Heart”: How do English Learners Make Judgments Regarding Pragma-Prosodic Meaning?; pdf (pdf)

Sara Gesuato, Producing and Reacting to Offers: The Co-construction of Discourse in Goal-Oriented Interaction; pdf (pdf)

Zia Tajeddin, Toward Critical Applied Pragmatics: Moving from Postcolonial Hegemony to Decolonial Pragmatics Pedagogy; pdf (pdf)

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Regular Feature Articles

Editor: Thomas Robb

Simon Webster & Simon Green, Scaffolded Practice Assignment Writing to Support Emergent Disciplinary Literacies; pdf (pdf)

Beatriz López-Medina, On the Development of a CLIL Textbook Evaluation Checklist: A Focus Group Study; pdf (pdf)

Thomas S C Farrell & Vanja Avejic, “It Is Easy To Fall Into A Monotonous Routine”: Reflections of an EFL Teacher in Central America; pdf (pdf)

Rubina Khan, Bijoy Lal Basu, Ahmed Bashir & Md. Elias Uddin, Online Instruction during COVID-19 at Public Universities in Bangladesh: Teacher and Student Voices; pdf (pdf)

Lorena Salud Gadella Kamstra, Enriching EFL Teachers’ Professional Experiences and Motivation: An Ecological Approach; pdf (pdf)

Behrang Mohammad-Salehi, Mehdi Vaez-Dalili & Hossein Heidari Tabrizi, Investigating Factors that Influence EFL Teachers’ Adoption of Web 2.0 Technologies: Evidence from Applying the UTAUT and TPACK; pdf (pdf)

David Berry, Level-up Learning: Video Games in an Online Class; pdf (pdf)

ON THE INTERNET

Editor: Vance Stevens

Vance Stevens, Virtual Worlds at Virtual Conferences;pdf (pdf)


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Editors: Alyssa Kermad & Catherine Showalter

Teacher Resources

Keith S. Folse (2020), Academic Word Lists: What Every Teacher Needs to Know; Reviewed by Abdulmajeed Alotaibi; pdf (pdf)

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