The paper is motivated by the widely held view that LSP pedagogy should aim to develop students' dual competence, encompassing − on the one hand − their linguistic knowledge and skills, and − on the other − their professional competence including (elements of) specialist content knowledge and the skills necessary to effectively communicate in specific purpose settings. Consequently, assessment in LSP pedagogy should take into account not only students' linguistic competence, but also measure their ability to effectively and professionally perform communicative tasks typical of the target settings. The study examines how pre-experience undergraduate students at the University of Economics in Katowice perceive assessment of their professional communicative competence, including elements of specific purpose knowledge, by a Business English teacher. The findings suggest that the degree of acceptance for the assessment of dual competence in a university Business English course is very high; importantly, it increases with students' growing business awareness and content knowledge.
The present paper aims to investigate which types of speech acts play a dominant role in the texts of online job advertisements, to what extent those acts are realised indirectly, and what purposes this indirectness may serve. The research is based on an analysis of a corpus comprising 100 online recruitment ads, of which 60 appeared in the Internet editions of three major UK newspapers, and the remaining 40 were found on two of the leading UK job portals. Methodologically the study is grounded in the cognitive approach to speech act theory, whereby the speech act taxonomy as proposed by J. Searle is treated as prototypical categorisation enhancing the organisation and systematicity of the analysis. The findings indicate that over a half of the micro-acts identified in the sample are realised indirectly. The two largest categories comprise assertions and ‘complex’/ambiguous micro-acts, both performing the functions of boasting and promising, and thus contributing to the overall persuasive appeal of recruitment ads.
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