Production of Conversational Implicatures by Students of the ELT Department
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This study was planned to investigate prospective English language teachers’ competence in
implicature production. The participants were 88 trainee teachers who were studying English language
teaching in the first, second and third years in a university in Cyprus. They were given an Implicature
Production Instruments with twelve situations, and they were asked to respond according to the
situations in an implicit way. The results showed that female participants used more implicatures than
the male participants, older participants used more implicatures and that the third year participants used
more implicatures as compared to the other years. The second-year group was not homogenous
regarding implicature production. The outcomes indicated that although pragmatic competence
concerning implicature production may develop naturally. English language learners and trainee
teachers need to be supported regarding pragmatic competence in the same way as they are supported in
other competency areas.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Türk Halk Bilimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
20 Eylül 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
10 Ekim 2018
Kabul Tarihi
10 Mart 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019 Cilt: 25 Sayı: 97