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  2. Goals, plans, action theory - Wikipedia

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    Influence plans include guidelines for verbal and non-verbal communication. [2] Based on strategic communication theory, an individual searches for preexisting templates to adapt current situation. [12] An example of a strategic plan might be to ask for help, while a tactical plan would be to list out your previous attempts and explain what you ...

  3. Communication strategies in second-language acquisition

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    Communication strategies were seen as belonging to the planning phase; their use became necessary if the learner experienced a problem with the initial plan that they made. In addition to the strategies outlined above Kasper and Faerch also pointed to the possibility of using a reductive strategy such as switching to a completely different topic.

  4. Language planning - Wikipedia

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    When Quechua was made an official language in Peru in 1975, the introduction of the language into the education and government domains made it essential to have a standard written language. [30] The task of adopting a writing system proved to be a point of contention among Quechua linguists.

  5. Context (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Verbal context influences the way an expression is understood; hence the norm of not citing people out of context. Since much contemporary linguistics takes texts, discourses, or conversations as the object of analysis, the modern study of verbal context takes place in terms of the analysis of discourse structures and their mutual relationships ...

  6. Second language writing - Wikipedia

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    Second language writing is the study of writing performed by non-native speakers/writers of a language as a second or foreign language.According to Oxford University, second language writing is the expression of one's actions and what one wants to say in writing in a language other than one's native language.

  7. Second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    For example, a learner may use more polite language when talking to someone of higher social status, but more informal language when talking with friends. [ 45 ] A learner's sense of connection to their in-group, as well as to the community of the target language emphasizes the influence of the sociolinguistic setting, as well as social factors ...

  8. Input hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    While it is important to learn these aspects of language, since writing is the only form that requires 100% competence, these aspects of language make up only a small portion of our language competence. [3] Due to these difficulties, Krashen recommends using the monitor at times when it does not interfere with communication, such as while ...

  9. Communicative competence - Wikipedia

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    The concept of communicative competence, as developed in linguistics, originated in response to perceived inadequacy of the notion of linguistic competence.That is, communicative competence encompasses a language user's grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, but reconceives this knowledge as a functional, social understanding of how and when to use utterances ...