论职业院校英语专业学生的语用能力培养-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

AbstractPragmatic Abstract Pragmatic competence refers to the ability to use language appropriately in certain context，and it’s believed as the key to successful conlrnunicafion．Therefore，the deficiency in pragmatic competence often impedes the appropriate comprehension of discourses and even leads to communication breakdown． In English language teaching，the ultimate goal is to cultivate learners’competence to L1se Enghsh appropriately in communication，so it’s essential to develop students’pragmatic competence in practical teaching process．But in vocational colleges，teachers usually pay more attention to the explanation of textbooks and the training of students’language knowledge，while the cultivation of students’communicative competence is often neglected， thus the development of students’pragmatic competence is always ignored．Therefore，even the English majors of vocational colleges can’t well manage English in communication they Call’t understand others and make themselves be understood．In cross—culture communication，they are likely to commit pragmatic failure and encounter embarrassment． Generally speaking，they are commonly weak at cultural awareness and unknowledgeable to pragmafics，their pragmatic competence is fairly poor． Then what are the main causes oftheir low pragmatic competence and how to cultivate English majors’pragmatic competence in vocational colleges?In order to explore the answers to these questions，the author conducts this study under the framework of related theories about pragmatic competence，pragmatic principles and pragmatic failure．A teaching experiment is the core of this study,in which an English proficiency test and two pragmatic questionnaires are employed to investigate English majors’linguistic competence and pragmatic competence．The tests serve three proposes：1)To study the relation between lingmstic competence and pragmatic competence ofthe subjects ofvocational college English majors．2)To analyze pragmatic failure and its causes．3)