Addressing Difficult Situations in Foreign-Language Learning

Download or read book Addressing Difficult Situations in Foreign-Language Learning written by Gerrard Mugford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a neglected area of foreign-language teaching and learning: difficult and aggressive situations. The author presents the real-life experiences of language users and analyses how these individuals have dealt with confusion, impoliteness and hostility in target-language contexts in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and within their home country. By constructing a student-centred pedagogical model around the data collected, the author considers the choices available to language learners in difficult situations, as well as tools for language learners to develop pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic resources.