Teaching Pragmatics in the Classroom: Instruction of Mitigation in Spanish as a Foreign Language

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Teaching Pragmatics in the Classroom: Instruction of Mitigation in Spanish as a Foreign Language
This is a summary and review of an article entitled Teaching Pragmatics in the Classroom: Instruction of Mitigation in Spanish as a Foreign Language by J. César Félix-Brasdefer of Indiana University. The abstract of the article states that it discusses the “effects of explicit instruction on the use of lexical and syntactic mitigators in refusal interactions among intermediate learners of Spanish.” This summary attempts to relay the major details of the study and provide suggestions for practical classroom application of the findings.

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