This book reports on a longitudinal study of the acquisition of pragmatic markers in written discourse in a third language (English) by secondary students living in the bilingual (Spanish and Catalan) Valencian Community in Spain. It examines pragmatic transfer, specifically positive transfer, in multilingual students from a holistic perspective.
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Sofía Martín-Laguna is an Assistant Professor at Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain, and a member of the LAELA (Applied Linguistics to the Teaching of the English Language) Research Group. Her research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, the acquisition of L3 pragmatics and the use of task-based approaches for teaching and learning pragmatics.
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This book reports on a longitudinal study of the acquisition of pragmatic markers in written discourse in a third language (English) by secondary students living in the bilingual (Spanish and Catalan) Valencian Community in Spain. It examines pragmatic transfer, specifically positive transfer, in multilingual students from a holistic perspective.
