Integrate mobile-application TE-DCTs into L2 pragmatics instruction to build metapragmatic awareness of nonverbals¶

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Description¶

The authors advocate integrating TE-DCTs into L2 pedagogical practice, especially for teaching the sociopragmatics of nonverbals, an area traditionally neglected in the classroom. Students use a mobile application to complete video-response activities on their own time in a comfortable setting, which the authors say lets instructors "create tasks that allow students to increase their metapragmatic awareness of the context of particular languacultures while practicing their language use". This supports a comprehensive language-learning environment accounting for linguistic and extralinguistic features.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Students need smartphones with a video-response application; tasks should include instructions to be hands-free and to use words, sounds, motions, or actions

Constraints¶

• The article cautions that video instructions modeling a response might prime students toward particular pragmatic structures or nonverbal devices; some participants did not follow written instructions when unsupervised

Target Learners¶

• intermediate and advanced L2 language learners

Target Learning Goals¶

• L2 pragmatics
• sociopragmatics of nonverbal communication
• metapragmatic awareness

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Key Sources¶

• Catherine Rockey, Jessica Tiegs, and Julieta Fernández. (2020). Mobile Application Use in Technology-Enhanced DCTs. CALICO Journal. https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.38773