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The use of acronyms in nursing English: implications for the development of communicative competence
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
This paper analyzes the use of acronyms in nursing English, and its implications for the development of the communicative competence of the speakers of this special language. The starting assumption is that profuse use of ...
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Practice opportunities and pragmatic change in a second language context: the case of request
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
Pragmatic competence is considered to be part of a non-native speakers (NNSs) communicative competence and has been included in the models of communicative ability (Canale and Swain, 1980; Bachman, 1990; Celce- Murcia et ...
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Contrastive perspectives on the reliability of grammar testing: The case of the verb phrase in L2 English
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
In this article we present the preliminary results of empirical research on the reliability of grammar testing. The following testing techniques are examined: multiple choice, translation, gap-filling and, finally, ...
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Developing pragmatic competence in the EFL setting: the case of request in tourism texts
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
In this paper we present an analysis of how the speech act of requesting is offered in several EFL (English as a Foreign Language) materials from the discipline of tourism. Our objective is to examine which is the most ...
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Developing secondary students' comunicative competence: politics and reality
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
That theory and practice do not always go hand in hand is something of a commonplace. The same holds true for what is legislated about how languages should be taught, and how they really are taught in schools. This relation ...
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Una aproximación pragmática al uso de anglicismos en el derecho español
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
Spanish jurists have inveterately seemed prone to the use of foreign terms to wrap up the most commonplace concepts of their discipline. If the usage of Latin aphorisms such as `rebus sic stantibus´ or `in dubio pro reo´, ...
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Garden-path utterances and relevance
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
An appropriate account of how the interpretation process of garden-path utterances develops should include an analysis of those psycholinguistic aspects related to the recovery of the semantic representations of the utterance ...
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Intercultural communicative competence: a step beyond communicative competence
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
The concept of "communicative competence", first proposed by Hymes, referred basically to abilities speakers have in their first language. This term, however, was appropriated and reworked (Canale & Swain 1980; van Ek 1986) ...
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A communicative view of the rightful place of nonverbal communication in native -and foreign- language teaching
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
Nonverbal communication, an essential component of all languages, has been, for a number of historical reasons, almost completely neglected in the teaching of both native and foreign languages. Speech has often been added ...