on cultivation of learners’ pragmatic competence in elt

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1、OnCultivationofLearners’PragmaticCompetenceinELT　　【Abstract】Thispaperanalyzesthecausesofpragmaticfailureandgivessomesuggestionsoncultivatingstudents’pragmaticcompetence.　　【Keywords】pragmaticcompetence；pragmaticfailure　　WefocustoomuchoncultivationofthelinguisticcompetenceinELT，atthesame

2、timeneglectlearners’pragmaticcompetence.Asaresult，pragmaticfailureappears.Thispaperanalyzesthecausesandgivessuggestionsoncultivatingstudents’pragmaticcompetence.　　I.Causesofpragmaticfailure　　Themajorcausesmaybe：students’inappropriatetransferofsemanticallyorsyntacticallyequivalentstruct

3、uresortransferofspeechactstrategiesfromtheirnativelanguagetothetargetlanguage，andstudents’tendencyofjudgingorinterpretingbehaviordifferentfromtheirsaccordingtotheirownculturestandard.Forexample，ifwewanttoexpress“杰克，我明天可以去你家?帷保?wehavetwochoices：canIgotoyourhousetomorrow，jack？orcanIcomet

4、oyourhousetomorrow，jack？MostChinesestudentswillchoosethefirstonewithouthesitation.ButactuallythesecondoneispreferredbynativeEnglishspeakers.Itisatypicalusageofadeicticshifttoshowpoliteness.　　Conflictofdifferentvaluesystemsandstudents’insuffientexposuretothetargetcultureaswellasalackofc

5、omparativestudiesofthetwoculturesarealso“snags”incommunication.Inchina，sentencesas“Howoldareyou？”“Areyoumarried？”“Howaboutyoursalary？”areoftenusedtostartconversationsbetweenstrangers，whileinthewesternculture，asprivacyisessential，thosequestionsareconsideredastabooquestions.　　Impropertea

6、chingtechniquescanalsoberegardedasonecauseofpragmaticfailure.Mostteachersonlyteachstudentssomelinguisticknowledge.Howeverallsuchlinguisticknowledgemustbecontextualizedifitistohaveanysignificance.Studentsneedtoacquireanunderstandingofpragmaticprinciples.Theyshouldknowhowtousewhattheyhav

7、elearnedproperly.　　II.SuggestionsonCultivationofStudents’PragmaticCompetence　　1.improvestudents’cross-culturalawareness　　Sincelanguageandcultureareverymuchinterlinked，cross-culturalawarenessmustbemadeoneofthegoalsinELT.AsweareteachingEnglishinanenvironment，whereChineseisthemothertong