The aim of the thesis is to investigate how teaching devices, with focus on ICT use are regarded in education. I make comparison with teaching without technical devices, but emphasize the teaching with such devices. I address questions concerning what technical devices are used and in which way these devices may enhance the education process. In addition, in which way the devices influence power and communication. The methods indicate a deductive-abductive approach, observations, interviews, and questionnaires. The theoretical framework focuses, Linguistics, Pedagogy, cognition, and Informatics. The results-part is built up on two cases – one concerning teaching with technical devices, the other concerning teaching without those devices. The results imply that the schools of Sweden use computers and Internet in a very ‘common’ way. However, there are intentions to use cell phones with software to assist the teaching. By this approach, that would be possible to add an additional time to the lectures since the pupils and teachers can work outside the classroom. One problem with technical devices is named ‘noise’, which are things in between the ‘useful’ (technical) devices and issues around that can decrease the learning process. In addition; if the goal is to have a symmetrical relationship between teacher and pupil, it may be difficult without taking carefully account on the (technical) device in use, and perhaps regard them as cognitive tools. From what I found, the tools are not regarded as cognitive.

<p>The aim of the thesis is to investigate how teaching devices, with focus on ICT use are regarded in education. I make comparison with teaching without technical devices, but emphasize the teaching with such devices. I address questions concerning what technical devices are used and in which way these devices may enhance the education process. In addition, in which way the devices influence power and communication.</p><p>The methods indicate a deductive-abductive approach, observations, interviews, and questionnaires. The theoretical framework focuses, Linguistics, Pedagogy, cognition, and Informatics. The results-part is built up on two cases – one concerning teaching with technical devices, the other concerning teaching without those devices. The results imply that the schools of Sweden use computers and Internet in a very ‘common’ way. However, there are intentions to use cell phones with software to assist the teaching. By this approach, that would be possible to add an additional time to the lectures since the pupils and teachers can work outside the classroom. One problem with technical devices is named ‘noise’, which are things in between the ‘useful’ (technical) devices and issues around that can decrease the learning process. In addition; if the goal is to have a symmetrical relationship between teacher and pupil, it may be difficult without taking carefully account on the (technical) device in use, and perhaps regard them as cognitive tools. From what I found, the tools are not regarded as cognitive.</p>

The aim of this thesis is to define the lexical units that are most vulnerable to the interference caused by lexical nonequivalence between Czech and Spanish vocabulary. The thesis is divided into the theoretical and the practical part. In the theoretical part the author introduces the issue of lexical nonequivalence in general and on the basis of the studied literature creates a linguodidactic classification of lexical nonequivalence. Specific cases of lexical nonequivalence are identified and explained in the practical part of the thesis based on an analysis of Spanish vocabulary of the textbooks Aventura 1,2, Nuevo Ven 1 and Nuevo Ven 2 (the first 8 lessons), which corresponds to the second stage of basic education, ie up to level B1. The interference caused by lexical nonequivalence is identified on the basis of the author´s own experience in teaching Spanish, therefore, both spoken and written expression of students are submitted to analysis.

The Swedish school, or more precisely, the school results of Swedish pupils, is a topic widely discussed in media, the newspapers and among teachers and parents. Everyone seems concerned about the knowledge requirements and there are many discussions about how to change the negative spiral. With the change of national study plans from the earlier Lpo94 to today´s Lgr11, many questions have arisen about how to plan and evaluate teaching. Against this background, the aim of this essay is to verify what influence the new national study plan has had on Spanish teaching, the study books in Spanish and evaluation in upper secondary school in the communities of Skövde and Mariestad. Our focus is delimited to the five competences of a language: listen, read, write, speak and communicate. In this essay we part from four hipotheses. In the first place, we believe that the national study plans, Lpo94 and Lgr11, are very similar, but that there is a greater focus on the competence of communication in Lgr11. In the second place, we believe that the tests in the teacher´s guides are more or less adapted to the five competences depending on if they were published before or after the change of national study plans. Our hipothesis is that the newer tests are more adapted to the competences than the older ones. In the third place, we believe that some teachers have adapted (more or less) to the new system and that others have not. In the fourth place, our hipothesis is that those teachers who have adapted to the new system, evaluate all the five competences, with greater frequency and also make their own material to a greater extent than others. The method used in this essay is a comparison between the national study plans and the Spanish teacher´s guides. We have also made surveys among the teachers in the communities of Mariestad and Skövde. The results of our study show that there is a high similarity between the national study plans, but that there is a greater focus on communication in Lgr11 when it comes to knowledge requirements. The tests in the teacher´s guides differ a lot, and not many of them have been republished since the system change. Interestingly, there is only one of the teacher´s guides with tests that correspond to all five competences, and it is a book published before Lgr11. Furthermore, the teachers in our study respond differently on how they believe that they have adapted to the new system. Half of them think that they ii have made no changes at all, but the results show, surprisingly, that all the teachers evaluate the five competences of a language and there is also a tendency to evaluate the pupils more often than before. It seems like the new national study plan has had an impact on all the teachers in our study.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O estudo situa-se no âmbito das investigações voltadas para documentos que sistematizam o trabalho do professor, dentre eles, o manual do professor que organiza a atividade docente junto ao livro didático. A dissertação analisa manuais do professor dos livros de espanhol selecionados pelo MEC para serem distribuídos a professores, em 2005, em função da lei 11161 da obrigatoriedade do ensino da língua espanhola para o ensino médio em todo o território nacional. O objetivo foi identificar imagens discursivas de docente e de ensino de espanhol como língua estrangeira neles construídas. Os fundamentos teóricos adotados advêm da Análise do Discurso de base enunciativa, além de recorrermos aos conceitos de dialogismo (BAKHTIN, 1979) e de polifonia (BAKHTIN, 1979; DUCROT, 1987). Os resultados nesses manuais apontam para a construção de imagens de professor como: aquele que necessita ser guiado em sua tarefa, incapaz de realizar suas escolhas em sala de aula, um professor recebedor de ordens; desatualizado com as metodologias de ensino atuais, necessitando, portanto, de atualização profissional; há ainda um professor que busca instruções facilitadoras para seu trabalho. Já no que se refere à visão de língua, deparamo-nos com um manual que dá ênfase ao trabalho com a leitura, voltado para uma concepção que valoriza aspectos discursivos; outros que afirmam seguir a abordagem comunicativa, com um olhar para a língua em uso, porém adotam procedimentos pautados numa concepção de língua como estrutura e/ou misturam ambas perspectivas / This thesis investigates documents that systematize the work of teachers, among them the teachers guide, which organizes the teaching activity with a textbook. The dissertation examines teacher's manuals of the Spanish books selected by the Brazilian MEC to be distributed to teachers in 2005, according to the law 11 161, which imposes the teaching of Spanish language in high schools across the country. The main purpose was to identify the discursive images of teachers and the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language built into them. The theoretical foundations here adopted come from the analysis of speech based on enunciation, as well as the concepts of dialogism (Bakhtin, 1979) and polyphony (Bakhtin, 1979; Ducrot, 1987). The results in these manuals point at the construction of teachers images such as: one that needs to be guided in his task, who is unable to make choices in the classroom; a teacher receiving orders; outdated with the current teaching methodologies, thus in need of professional development. There is still a teacher seeking instructions to facilitate his work. In that which concerns the vision of language, we find a manual that emphasizes working with reading, based on a conception that emphasizes discursive aspects; and others who claim to follow the communicative approach, focused on the language used, however adopt procedures oriented in a conception of language as a structure, and / or blend both perspectives

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O estudo situa-se no âmbito das investigações voltadas para documentos que sistematizam o trabalho do professor, dentre eles, o manual do professor que organiza a atividade docente junto ao livro didático. A dissertação analisa manuais do professor dos livros de espanhol selecionados pelo MEC para serem distribuídos a professores, em 2005, em função da lei 11161 da obrigatoriedade do ensino da língua espanhola para o ensino médio em todo o território nacional. O objetivo foi identificar imagens discursivas de docente e de ensino de espanhol como língua estrangeira neles construídas. Os fundamentos teóricos adotados advêm da Análise do Discurso de base enunciativa, além de recorrermos aos conceitos de dialogismo (BAKHTIN, 1979) e de polifonia (BAKHTIN, 1979; DUCROT, 1987). Os resultados nesses manuais apontam para a construção de imagens de professor como: aquele que necessita ser guiado em sua tarefa, incapaz de realizar suas escolhas em sala de aula, um professor recebedor de ordens; desatualizado com as metodologias de ensino atuais, necessitando, portanto, de atualização profissional; há ainda um professor que busca instruções facilitadoras para seu trabalho. Já no que se refere à visão de língua, deparamo-nos com um manual que dá ênfase ao trabalho com a leitura, voltado para uma concepção que valoriza aspectos discursivos; outros que afirmam seguir a abordagem comunicativa, com um olhar para a língua em uso, porém adotam procedimentos pautados numa concepção de língua como estrutura e/ou misturam ambas perspectivas / This thesis investigates documents that systematize the work of teachers, among them the teachers guide, which organizes the teaching activity with a textbook. The dissertation examines teacher's manuals of the Spanish books selected by the Brazilian MEC to be distributed to teachers in 2005, according to the law 11 161, which imposes the teaching of Spanish language in high schools across the country. The main purpose was to identify the discursive images of teachers and the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language built into them. The theoretical foundations here adopted come from the analysis of speech based on enunciation, as well as the concepts of dialogism (Bakhtin, 1979) and polyphony (Bakhtin, 1979; Ducrot, 1987). The results in these manuals point at the construction of teachers images such as: one that needs to be guided in his task, who is unable to make choices in the classroom; a teacher receiving orders; outdated with the current teaching methodologies, thus in need of professional development. There is still a teacher seeking instructions to facilitate his work. In that which concerns the vision of language, we find a manual that emphasizes working with reading, based on a conception that emphasizes discursive aspects; and others who claim to follow the communicative approach, focused on the language used, however adopt procedures oriented in a conception of language as a structure, and / or blend both perspectives

O objetivo deste estudo é investigar como graduandos de um curso de Letras/Espanhol representam o uso das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TIC) no processo de ensino-aprendizagem do idioma e avaliar, em que medida, essas representações se transformaram ao longo da experiência de uso de um Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem (AVA), criado na plataforma Moodle. Fundamentam teoricamente este estudo: a) uma visão do papel das representações sociais nas práticas dos indivíduos, com base nas contribuições de Jodelet (2001) e Moscovici (2003), e dos teóricos do Núcleo Central: Flament (1994), Moliner (1994; 2001), Abric (1993; 1994a; 1994b) e Sá (2015); b) a compreensão do potencial de mediação das TIC para a formação inicial de professores de línguas, cuja base são autores como, Coll (2010), Rojo (2013), Castells (2013; 2015), Horn, Staker, Christensen (2015), Valente (2015), Bautista, Borges e Forés (2016), entre outros c) e a perspectiva de Dewey (1979) sobre os critérios necessários para fazer de uma experiencia pura e simples, uma experiência educativa. Os dados foram coletados ao longo do segundo semestre de 2015, quando a disciplina Língua Espanhola foi ministrada, no curso de Letras de uma universidade pública do estado de São Paulo. Participaram do estudo oito alunos dessa disciplina. A pesquisa, de cunho etnográfico, seguiu a abordagem qualitativa-interpretativista. Os dados analisados correspondem ao discurso dos participantes que responderam aos dois questionários aplicados, no início e no fim do curso, e também na análise de um fórum de discussão específico, no qual se propôs aos discentes uma reflexão sobre o futuro da Educação mediada por tecnologias. A interpretação dos dados revelou a possível centralidade de Representações Relativizantes, cuja consequência aparente foi o discreto engajamento nas atividades propostas na sala de aula virtual. Além disso, observou-se que os estudantes vivenciaram uma experiência que pode ser considerada do tipo educativa, apesar de os critérios para tal terem sido satisfeitos apenas parcialmente, devido às escassas interações. Esses resultados parecem apontar para a necessidade de se desenvolverem mais experiências de uso das TIC ao longo da formação inicial, para uma incorporação natural delas às práticas de ensino dos futuros docentes. / The purpose of this study is to investigate how Spanish Language undergraduate students represent the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the teaching-learning process of the language and to assess to what the extent these social representations change throughout the experience of using a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), created on the Moodle platform. This study is grounded on: a) a view of the role of social representations in the practice of individuals, based on the contributions of Jodelet (2001), Moscovici (2003), and Central Core theorists: Flament (1994), Moliner (1994;2001), Abric (1993; 1994a; 1994b) and Sá (2015); b) the comprehension of how important the ICT could be for the initial formation of language teachers, based on studies developed by Coll (2010), Rojo (2013), Castells (2013; 2015), Horn, Staker, Christensen (2015), Valente (2015), Bautista, Borges and Forés (2016), among others; c) and Dewey\'s (1979) perspective about the criteria an experience must fulfill to be considered educational. Data were collected throughout the second semester of 2015, in the classes of Spanish II, a course that is part of the Spanish Language Teaching Program at a public university in São Paulo. Eight students participated in the study. This ethnographic research followed the qualitative interpretative approach. The data analyzed here are part of the discourse of the participants who answered two questionnaires applied at the beginning and at the end of the course. The analysis also considered the participation of the students in a specific discussion forum, in which they reflected about the future of education mediated by technologies. The analysis of the data revealed the potential centrality of Relativizing Representations, which noticeable consequence was a discreet engagement of the students in the activities proposed in the virtual classroom. In addition, the results show that the students have gone through an educational experience, although the criteria for this conclusion have not been entirely fulfilled, due to the scarce VLE interactions. These results seem to point out the need of spreading more ICT experiences throughout the initial formation of teachers so that they can incorporate these technologies into their future practices.

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Thus, we have outlined an evolutionary outlook in Spanish language offer in Benjamin Constant's public school system, from the beginning of its municipal and state public schools offers in the city until the year of 2016, in addition to point out the aspects that have made and make important, to the local educational context, the adoption of the Spanish Language by the municipal and state public schools and, how the political actions on language are embedded in this scenario. In the meantime, we used bibliographical research and documents, In the first part, we have made a survey of theoretical basis on linguistic policies and planning, as well as glotopolytic, on issues involving the teaching of languages in the national, regional and local context, evidencing the Spanish Language. In order to do so, we have collected documents which consists in the corpus of the investigation, along with the municipal and state educational institutions of the city and the Municipal Secretary of Education of Benjamin Constant. Besides, we investigated some data in the Institute of Nature and Culture about the teacher training in Language Spanish, through the Pedagogical Project of Course of Degree in Portuguese Language and Literature and Spanish Language and Literature. As a theoretical basis, we adopted postulates on the topic of linguistic and educational policies, on the glotopolytic, about power relations in politics and linguistic planning, on the Spanish language in Brazil, in Amazonas and in the city of Benjamin Constant. The analysis of the data presented in the documents showed that at first the Foreign Language prevailed in the public school system of Benjamin Constant was English, this occurred only in the teaching previously known as Secondary or Magisterium, nowadays known as High School. In Primary Education there was no offer of any foreign language, however, from the second half of the nineties of last century, the state and municipal public schools of Benjamin Constant began to offer Spanish Language teaching. By the municipality, the first school which offered Foreign Language was the Municipal School Professor Graziela Corrêa de Almeida in 1998, in three classes of the 5th grade of Elementary School, and by the state network of education, the first one which offered Spanish Language was The State School Imaculada Conceição in 1997, in a single class of 1st grade in High School. / Este trabalho objetiva investigar como o ensino da Língua Espanhola foi implementado nas escolas públicas da zona urbana do município de Benjamin Constant, fronteira Brasil-Peru, no Estado do Amazonas, buscando identificar as principais estratégias adotadas pelas entidades públicas responsáveis pela educação formal de Ensino Fundamental (anos finais) e Médio do munícipio para a implementação do ensino de Língua Espanhola. Assim, traçamos um panorama evolutivo da oferta da Língua Espanhola na rede pública de ensino de Benjamin Constant, desde o início de sua oferta pelas escolas públicas das redes municipal e estadual do município até o ano de 2016, além de evidenciar os aspectos que tornaram e tornam importantes, para o contexto educacional local, a adoção da Língua Espanhola pelas redes públicas municipal e estadual de ensino, e como as ações políticas sobre a linguagem estão imbricadas nesse cenário. Neste interim, usamos a pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, fazendo um apanhado de bases teóricas acerca das políticas e dos planejamentos linguísticos, bem como da glotopolítica, das questões envolvendo o ensino de línguas nos contextos nacional, regional e local, evidenciando a Língua Espanhola. Para tanto, levantamos os documentos que constituíram o corpus da investigação, junto às instituições municipais e estaduais de ensino do município e à Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Benjamin Constant e averiguamos alguns dados no Instituto de Natureza e Cultura acerca da formação docente em Língua Espanhola, por meio do Projeto Pedagógico de Curso da Licenciatura em Letras: Língua e Literatura Portuguesa e Língua e Literatura Espanhola. Como base teórica adotamos postulados sobre a temática de políticas linguísticas e educacionais, sobre a glotopolítica, sobre as relações de poder na política e no planejamento linguístico, sobre a Língua Espanhola no Brasil, no Amazonas e no município de Benjamin Constant. A análise dos dados presentes nos documentos levantados evidencia que, a princípio, a Língua Estrangeira que prevalecia na rede pública de ensino de Benjamin Constant era o Inglês. Isso, ocorria somente no ensino anteriormente conhecido como Secundário ou Magistério, hoje conhecido como Ensino Médio. No Ensino Fundamental não havia a oferta de nenhuma língua estrangeira; no entanto, a partir da segunda metade da década de noventa do século passado as escolas das redes públicas estadual e municipal de ensino de Benjamin Constant passaram a oferta a Língua Espanhola. Pelo município, a primeira escola a ofertar a Língua Estrangeira foi a Escola Municipal Professora Graziela Corrêa de Almeida, no ano de 1998, em três turmas da 5ª série dos anos finais do Ensino Fundamental e pela rede estadual de ensino a primeira a ofertar a Língua Espanhola foi a Escola Estadual Imaculada Conceição, no ano de 1997, em uma única turma do 1º ano do 2º grau.

O objetivo deste estudo é investigar como graduandos de um curso de Letras/Espanhol representam o uso das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TIC) no processo de ensino-aprendizagem do idioma e avaliar, em que medida, essas representações se transformaram ao longo da experiência de uso de um Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem (AVA), criado na plataforma Moodle. Fundamentam teoricamente este estudo: a) uma visão do papel das representações sociais nas práticas dos indivíduos, com base nas contribuições de Jodelet (2001) e Moscovici (2003), e dos teóricos do Núcleo Central: Flament (1994), Moliner (1994; 2001), Abric (1993; 1994a; 1994b) e Sá (2015); b) a compreensão do potencial de mediação das TIC para a formação inicial de professores de línguas, cuja base são autores como, Coll (2010), Rojo (2013), Castells (2013; 2015), Horn, Staker, Christensen (2015), Valente (2015), Bautista, Borges e Forés (2016), entre outros c) e a perspectiva de Dewey (1979) sobre os critérios necessários para fazer de uma experiencia pura e simples, uma experiência educativa. Os dados foram coletados ao longo do segundo semestre de 2015, quando a disciplina Língua Espanhola foi ministrada, no curso de Letras de uma universidade pública do estado de São Paulo. Participaram do estudo oito alunos dessa disciplina. A pesquisa, de cunho etnográfico, seguiu a abordagem qualitativa-interpretativista. Os dados analisados correspondem ao discurso dos participantes que responderam aos dois questionários aplicados, no início e no fim do curso, e também na análise de um fórum de discussão específico, no qual se propôs aos discentes uma reflexão sobre o futuro da Educação mediada por tecnologias. A interpretação dos dados revelou a possível centralidade de Representações Relativizantes, cuja consequência aparente foi o discreto engajamento nas atividades propostas na sala de aula virtual. Além disso, observou-se que os estudantes vivenciaram uma experiência que pode ser considerada do tipo educativa, apesar de os critérios para tal terem sido satisfeitos apenas parcialmente, devido às escassas interações. Esses resultados parecem apontar para a necessidade de se desenvolverem mais experiências de uso das TIC ao longo da formação inicial, para uma incorporação natural delas às práticas de ensino dos futuros docentes. / The purpose of this study is to investigate how Spanish Language undergraduate students represent the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the teaching-learning process of the language and to assess to what the extent these social representations change throughout the experience of using a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), created on the Moodle platform. This study is grounded on: a) a view of the role of social representations in the practice of individuals, based on the contributions of Jodelet (2001), Moscovici (2003), and Central Core theorists: Flament (1994), Moliner (1994;2001), Abric (1993; 1994a; 1994b) and Sá (2015); b) the comprehension of how important the ICT could be for the initial formation of language teachers, based on studies developed by Coll (2010), Rojo (2013), Castells (2013; 2015), Horn, Staker, Christensen (2015), Valente (2015), Bautista, Borges and Forés (2016), among others; c) and Dewey\'s (1979) perspective about the criteria an experience must fulfill to be considered educational. Data were collected throughout the second semester of 2015, in the classes of Spanish II, a course that is part of the Spanish Language Teaching Program at a public university in São Paulo. Eight students participated in the study. This ethnographic research followed the qualitative interpretative approach. The data analyzed here are part of the discourse of the participants who answered two questionnaires applied at the beginning and at the end of the course. The analysis also considered the participation of the students in a specific discussion forum, in which they reflected about the future of education mediated by technologies. The analysis of the data revealed the potential centrality of Relativizing Representations, which noticeable consequence was a discreet engagement of the students in the activities proposed in the virtual classroom. In addition, the results show that the students have gone through an educational experience, although the criteria for this conclusion have not been entirely fulfilled, due to the scarce VLE interactions. These results seem to point out the need of spreading more ICT experiences throughout the initial formation of teachers so that they can incorporate these technologies into their future practices.

<p>This investigation examined the effectiveness of different types of explicit classroom instruction on second language (L2) development of the Spanish discourse marker (DM) <em>pues</em>. While several studies have addressed the positive effect of explicit instruction on L2 DM development, the current investigation moves beyond the explicit-implicit method debate by examining the comparative effectiveness of different types of explicit instruction, specifically by comparing the effects of concept-based instruction (CBI), rule-based instruction (RBI), and a control group (CTRL). This investigation contributes to the field of instructed pragmatics by demonstrating how different types of explicit instruction can affect the robustness of pragmatics learning outcomes. Furthermore, with the inclusion of CBI, this investigation expands theoretical paradigms for L2 pragmatics teaching to include a less explored framework for instruction — sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 1987).</p> <p><br></p> <p>Given the learnability problem posed by the low perceptual salience and extensive multifunctionality of DMs, along with their conceptual connections to important interactional practices and to a semantic core that guides their use in discourse, DMs and <em>pues</em> specifically were identified as a potentially ideal candidate for development through CBI. <em>Pues</em> is translated in English to ‘so’, ‘then’, ‘cos’, and ‘well’ and is a highly frequent feature of Spanish conversation (Domínguez García, 2016; Stenström, 2006a; Stenström, 2006b). DMs like <em>pues </em>contribute to speakers’ ability to communicate effectively and participate in social interaction (Crible & Pascual, 2020; Hayano, 2011; Hoshi, 2017; Thörle, 2016) and, thus, they are important linguistic features for L2 speakers.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Using a pre, post, and delayed post design, data were collected using an oral decision-making task and a dialogue reflection task. The analyses addressed whether CBI, RBI, and CTRL produce the same effect on L2 Spanish learners’ <em>pues</em> frequency of use, <em>pues</em> functional range, and use of <em>pues</em> in interaction. As a secondary objective, the analyses also considered whether CBI and RBI produce the same effect on L2 Spanish learners’ ability to transfer learning to unlearned DMs.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Quantitative analyses, which addressed the learners’ ability to use <em>pues</em> frequently and for a range of functions, indicated an advantage for the CBI group, with CBI learners using <em>pues</em> with greater frequency of use and functional range than RBI and CTRL learners. The qualitative analysis, which addressed the learners’ ability to use <em>pues</em> in interaction, also indicated an advantage for the CBI group, with CBI learners using <em>pues</em> to express a stance of givenness towards utterances as well as to manage turn-taking in interaction. CBI learners’ use of <em>pues</em> for accomplishing these two interactional practices indicated a deeper understanding of <em>pues</em> and how the DM can be used to accomplish social actions in interaction.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Overall, the findings provide support for the claim that CBI is superior to traditional explicit models of instruction (Erikson, Lanning, & French, 2017) and suggest that the learnability problem of DMs may be lessened by providing a conceptual structure that presents learners with a framework for organizing DM multifunctionality and that also highlights the interactional importance of DMs as tools that can be used to accomplish social actions. The findings are discussed considering the role of conceptual knowledge in L2 DM development and implications for pragmatics instruction.</p>