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3 - Critical Assessment of the Representation of Speech Acts in Advanced EFL Textbooks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2020

Lorena Pérez-Hernández
Lorena Pérez-Hernández
Affiliation:
University of Rioja, Spain
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Summary

Chapter 3 reports the results of a study which looks into a collection of ten textbooks for advanced EFL students in order to assess their treatment of directive speech acts. This chapter considers aspects related to (1) the quantitative representation of directive speech acts in the textbooks (i.e. determining if there is a balanced portrayal of the most frequent categories of directive speech acts), and (2) the qualitative treatment of directive speech acts (i.e. assessing if the depiction of directive speech acts in EFL textbooks has incorporated the main research advancements described in ). In particular, this chapter offers an account of the treatment of constructional, conversational, and contrastive aspects of directive speech acts in EFL textbooks for advanced EFL Spanish students.

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Speech Acts in English
From Research to Instruction and Textbook Development
 , pp. 69 - 87
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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