Raising Pragmatic Awareness in the EFL Classroom

Abstract

application/pdfAN00000289-20180726-47For EFL learners, it is crucial to acquire pragmatic competence to communicate smoothly in the target language. However, teachers recognize that teaching prangmatics in the second language classrooms is no easy matter. The purpose of this study is to propose an effective way to raise students’ pragmatic awareness through pragmatic experience using American TV drama. The results of this study indicated that students actively found similarities and differences between their own answers and native English speakers’ manner of speaking. It is our hope that the results will be useful to teachers and materials developers by providing insight into the problems that EFL students have in their realization of pragmatic awareness.論文departmental bulletin pape