ENHANCING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE IN READING COMPREHENSION: CONTEXT OF HIGHER-EDUCATION
Keywords:
communicative competence, model, education, foreign language, EFL, pragmatics, pragmatic competence, reading, vocabulary, text, SLA, bottom-up process, top-down, method, technique, activity, coherence, inference, interpretation.Abstract
This research aims to discuss whether deficient competence in reading comprehension correlates with frailty in pragmatic skills and, specifically, in the generation of referential and inferential skills. Besides, skills in reading comprehension and inferential skills are estimated taking into consideration the needs and objectives for the development of adult English language learners’ pragmatic ability through interaction with texts and reading activities in foreign language education within higher-education context.
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