What is a presentation? • It is the process of presenting the content of a topic to an audience consisting of one or more persons. • It utilizes some visual aid. • It is generally a PowerPoint file containing all the slides for a given speech.
Speech Acts in English: From Research to Instruction and Textbook Development
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Speech Acts in English: From Research to Instruction and Textbook Development
Speech acts, those actions carried out mainly by means of language, are used in English in a range of complex ways. However, they have rarely been covered in English as a foreign language (EFL) materials and textbooks. Bringing together current theories from pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, this book addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive model of directive speech acts and showing how to teach them to learners of English.