Quick Guide to the Speech Act Strategies Curricular Materials

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There is an introductory awareness-raising unit about sociocultural norms and interpretation of apologies, complaints, compliments/responses to compliments, refusals, requests, and thanks.

To view prepared feedback to learners, click on the “submit” button (with or without any responses in the boxes) at the end of these exercises.

Below is the major structure of each of the five speech act units (apologies, compliments/responses to compliments, refusals, requests, and thanks) (not always in the following sequence).

1. Observational tasks both for L2 models and for their own written production

e.g., Requests Ex.1, 2

2. Language-focused (sociolinguistic/pragmalinguistic) exercises and information

e.g., Requests Ex.3, 4, 5

3. Practice in producing output and self-evaluation

e.g., Requests Ex. 6, 7, 10, 11

4. Speech-act specific strategies

e.g., Requests Ex. 8

5. Tone

e.g., Requests Ex. 9

6. Annotated bibliography

e.g., Requests Bibliography

To view prepared feedback to learners, click on the “submit” button (with or without any responses in the boxes) at the end of some of the exercises (e.g., Requests 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 11).