Browsing School of Language and Culture by Author "Sachtleben, A"

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Empowering the apprentice academic: teaching writing at postgraduate level

Sachtleben, A; Strauss, P; Turner, E; Sachtleben, A; Strauss, P; Turner, E (Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2009)

Tertiary institutions offer a variety of provision for postgraduate students aimed at the development of academic writing skills. This article using a series of workshops and individual tutorials designed specifically for ...
Making the implicit explicit: pragmatics in the classroom

Denny, H; Sachtleben, A (AUT University, 2010)

Successful communication in a second language requires knowledge of its socio-pragmatic norms (Eslami-Rasekh, 2005), and explicit instruction can be of value to second language learners (Kasper & Roever, 2004). Various ...
Making the implicit explicit: raising pragmatic awareness in trainee interpreters, using semi-authentic spontaneous discourse samples

Sachtleben, A; Denny, HG; Sachtleben, A; Denny, HG (TESOL, 2012)

Following the recent interest in the teaching of pragmatics and the recognition of its importance for both cross-cultural communication and new speakers of an additional language, the authors carried out an action research ...