中国学生语用能力调查和对英语教学的启示.pdfVIP

A Survey on the Pragmatic Competence Development of Chinese English Learners and Implications for Pragmatic English Teaching In this global village of modem society,cross-cultural communication permeates people’S everyday life．English，船an international language frequently used．has gained much more attention than everbefore．However,communication breakdown frequently occurs between people from different cultures due to various reasons． Cross-cultural communicative competence by Widdowson(1 989)includes two aSpects： linguistic competence and pragmatic competence．Linguistic competence is made llp of thige components—phonology,lexicon,and grammar,and pragmatic competence，the other important component of communicative competence,is the ability tO select a linguistic form that is appropriate for a specific situation,or to Ilse the language appropriately in specific social interactious． Researches reveal that the pragmatic competence of the Chinese English learners is much poorer than their linguistic competence．Pragmatic competence has been almost neglected in the traditional language teaching．As a result，though English learners have memorized a lot ofnew words，maslered the grammatical knowledge，and even got high scores in various tests，they frequently failed to rise the English language appropriately or to interpret it in an acceptable way and they found themselves quite at a loss when interacting with native speakers in real life． Hence pragmatic failure in communication．But the teachers often attributed pragmatic failures to insufficient knowledge ofthe English language． This research attempts to investigate into the problem of how well Chinese students have developed their pragmatic competence after linguistic pragmatics entered China 20 years ago， reflected in the ability to realize such daily interactive acts as greeting，addressing,compliment， refusal，apologizing，appreciation and SO on．For this purpose，the author has collected data using a questionnaire of 50 questio