FLL 676 - Applied Linguistics for Teachers of Spanish: A Pragmatic Perspective

3 credits
Course delivered in Spanish. A critical examination of Spanish language and culture as a pragmatic system and the ways in which student pragmatic development can be enhanced through classroom language instruction and assessment. Topics include theories of second language pragmatic development, approaches to developmental pragmatics research, the development of pragmatics and grammar, differences in pragmatic production and pragmatic comprehension, the relationship between learner contexts and pragmatic development, and the social perceptions underlying participants’ interpretation and performance of social acts. The course includes discussion of the Spanish pronominal and verbal systems as well as issues of morphology, semantics, lexicon and discourse as they apply to the teaching and assessment of classroom Spanish from a pragmatic perspective. Students are provided with opportunities to use inquiry skills in the development of both theoretical and applied content.