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- Title
AURAL PRAGMATIC COMPREHENSION.
- Authors
Alagözlü, Nuray; Büyüköztürk, Şener
- Abstract
Overall comprehension is closely related not only to the knowledge of words and syntax, but also the pragmatic concerns of the discourse. This study is an attempt to explore the basic constructs of aural pragmatic comprehension in second language (L2) learning. Taking pragmatic comprehension as the recognition of speech acts and conversational implicatures, this study compares pragmatic comprehension levels and the performances in oral and written production using a hierarchical regression analysis. The results indicate a significant relationship between writing performance and pragmatic comprehension (p<0.01) and a positive relationship, though not statistically significant, between oral performance and aural pragmatic comprehension, all of which propose an intimate link between linguistic production and pragmatic gain. Additionally, writing appears to be a source of both bottom-up and top down processing that indicates interactive processing of comprehension.
- Subjects
COMPREHENSION; PRAGMATICS; AUDITORY learning; SECOND language acquisition; DISCOURSE; SPEECH acts (Linguistics); REGRESSION analysis; SYNTAX (Grammar); LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Novitas-ROYAL, 2009, Vol 3, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
1307-4733
- Publication type
Article