Estimating Pragmatic Competence of EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension via Gricean Cooperative Principles

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Mohammad Reza Afshar ¹ , Bahman Gorjian ² , Elkhas Veysi ³ , Sasan Sharafi ⁴ , Mansoureh Shekaramiz ⁵

1 - Department of Linguistics, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Department of Linguistics, Abadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadan, Iran
3 - Department of Linguistics, Payam-e-Noor University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of Linguistics, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
5 - Department of Linguistics, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

Received: 2022-12-02 Accepted : 2023-01-04 Published : 2023-09-01

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