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Ten-session explicit metapragmatic treatment program with six instructional elements

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Description

The treatment consisted of ten classroom sessions of 30 minutes each, developed from deviations found in learners' questionnaire answers. The article states "These materials consist of six different elements": explicit explanation of request behaviors, information sheets, role-play activities, pair-work discussions of appropriateness, listening to native-speaker dialogues, and classroom discussions of how requests are realized in English. Sessions began with teacher-fronted discussion of how one utterance conveys different meanings in context.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Learners work with researcher-prepared informative papers and materials based on available literature on request speech acts
  • Sessions include role plays, pair work, listening to native-speaker dialogues, and classroom discussion

Constraints

  • Studied only with intermediate-level, above-18, Persian-speaking learners at institute level over ten 30-minute sessions

Target Learners

  • intermediate EFL learners at institute level

Learning Goals

  • awareness and appropriate use of the request speech act in English

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Fatemeh Abdollahizadeh Masouleh, Masoumeh Arjmandi, Fereydoon Vahdany. (2014). The Effect of Explicit Metapragmatic Instruction on Request Speech Act Awareness of Intermediate EFL Students at Institute Level. Universal Journal of Educational Research 2(7): 504-511. https://doi.org/10.13189/ujer.2014.020702
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title Ten-session explicit metapragmatic treatment program with six instructional elements
description The treatment consisted of ten classroom sessions of 30 minutes each, developed from deviations found in learners' questionnaire answers.
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