The effect of explicit vs. implicit instruction on mastering the speech act of thanking among Iranian male and female EFL learners

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Mehdi Ghaedrahmat (مؤلف), Parviz Alavinia (مؤلف), Reza Biria (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Universidad de La Sabana, 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• الموضوعات: article
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This pragmatic study investigated the speech act of thanking as used by non-native speakers of English. The study was an attempt to find whether the pragmatic awareness of Iranian EFL learners could be improved through explicit instruction of the structure of the speech act of "Thanking"....