The development of intercultural competence in the learner is relevant in learning and teaching a foreign language. According to Balboni (2015), intercultural competence is the... Read More

What is the intercultural role of imitation in second language (L2) testing? Do learners imitate their examiners’ language use? What about the other way around?... Read More

In a context where knowledge and understanding are constructed through interaction and negotiation, research indicates that Intercultural Virtual Exchange (IVE) has come to be seen... Read More

Interlanguage pragmatics and cross-cultural communication have long been a focus of intercultural studies. A growing literature has explored interculturality as either situationally emergent (Nishizaka, 1995),... Read More

Twitter, as a text-based platform, offers fewer contextual sources compared to other social media platforms like Facebook or Instagram. Consequently, linguistic cues play a critical... Read More

Politeness has been extensively studied in English and its native speaking communities. However, there is a dearth of literature that explores politeness in Arabic. Existing... Read More

In any language, pragmatic skills are essential to convey and interpret meaning in social contexts accurately. As pragmatics studies how language is used in interactions,... Read More

Pragmatic markers (PMs) have been defined as linguistic constructions, typical of spoken language, which help interaction (Beeching, 2016). Research on their use in different varieties... Read More