scholarly journals L’INSEGNAMENTO DELLA COMPETENZA PRAGMATICA / TEACHING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE

2020 ◽  
pp. 248-266
Author(s):  
Ana Lalic
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Language Needs ◽  
Historical Profile ◽  
Communicative Role

This paper aims to analyze the possibility of a diachronic approach to pragmatic competence in a foreign language. The main objective of the paper is to examine the methods that were used by the authors of grammar books published before the 20th century with the goal of ascertaining to what extent it was possible to teach pragmatic competence. The main hypothesis is that methods for teaching pragmatic competence existed even before the 20th century, but that complex theories and methodologies did not. To that end we adapt the modern speech act theory as a framework for analysis of grammars for foreigners, I analyze the historical profile of the foreign language learner, and I individualize possible language needs in a diachronic perspective. The central part of the research consists of a qualitative analysis of speech acts from Casotti (1709) and of the analysis of their communicative role. The results implied by this research can further be used for research in the field of didactics – both historical and modern – and that of historical linguistics, more specifically historical pragmatics.

Řečové akty omluvy u českých studentů v angličtině (L2): vybrané výsledky pilotáže

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-188
Author(s):  
Marie Vališová
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Shed Light

During the second half of the 20th century, there was a shift in focus in second language acquisition research from linguistic competence to communicative and pragmatic competence (Hymes, 1972; Canale & Swain, 1980; Canale, 1983; Bachman, 1990; Bachman & Palmer, 1996; Usó-Juan & Martínez-Flor, 2006). This resulted in a growing number of studies on speech acts in general. Motivated by a lack of studies on the speech acts of apology in conversations of Czech learners of English as a foreign language, my dissertation project aims to shed light on apology strategies used by Czech university students.

scholarly journals Developing Student’s German Language Competencies through Pragmatic Approach in the Classroom for Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 574-582
Author(s):  
Rina Evianty ◽  
Risnovita Sari ◽  
Muhammad Reza
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
German Language ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
General Goal ◽  
Language Competencies

The general goal of teaching German as a foreign language is that learners can communicate appropriately in writing and orally in German. But in fact this goal can often not be achieved. Many learners in higher education master the German grammar and vocabulary, but they are unable to use German language that matches the social context, because they do not have much pragmatics competence. Pragmatic approach based on the function of language as a communication tool is a study of language by involving various aspects outside the language that are able to provide meaning. Pragmatic competence constitutes a significant factor in determining the success of communication.  In fact, a German language learner in higher education is not only expected to use language and produce utterances which are understandable or grammatically correct, but is also expected to produce utterances which are socioculturally appropriate. However, for students in higher education who learn German as a Foreign Language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache/DaF), the pragmatic competence, which can actually be acquired naturally through social interaction, is quite difficult to acquire due to the limited. On this basis, pragmatics needs to be integrated into German language courses in higher education, which includes pragma linguistics and socio pragmatic. In this regard, this study describes not only the relationship between pragmatics and German as a foreign language, but also this study is an attempt to define its implications in teaching German as foreign language in higher education.

scholarly journals Promoting pragmatic awareness of Indonesian English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners through teaching speech acts of oral and written complaints

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Waliyadin Nuridin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Discourse Processing ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Pragmatic Awareness ◽  
Processing Framework

<p>The lack of pragmatic competence could result in unexpected effects on the speakers; for example, the speakers are considered as rude and aggressive people. Accordingly, developing pragmatic competence for EFL learners should be a great concern. This article is aimed to fill in the needs of pragmatic teaching by providing examples of teaching practices that have successfully developed learners’ pragmatic competence. There are two tasks that have been designed and implemented by drawing on discourse processing framework proposed by Celce-Murcia and Olshtain (2000) to achieve the production of both written and spoken discourses. The first task is on speaking, particularly on the speech act of oral complaints. The second task is on writing a letter of complaint. This article suggests that developing pragmatic awareness through the speech act of oral and written complaints is effective.<strong></strong></p>

scholarly journals Some Features of Etiquette Speech Acts of the Russian Wedding Ceremony in the Aspect of the Formation of Pragmatic Competence of Chinese Students by the study of Russian language

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 463-474
Author(s):  
Hu Yawei
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
Ritual Speech ◽  
The Russian Language

The subject of the article is the problems of communicative behavior of students. As a result of studying the theoretical material and the practice of its application, an effective method of studying Russian by Chinese students through national features of speech etiquette. All this will increase the level of practical language skills. This article is devoted to the study of Russian as a foreign language on the example of ritual speech acts of the wedding rite in Russian culture. The author believes that the use of speech formulas of etiquette in the teaching of the Russian language will facilitate the effective assimilation of knowledge and the formation of pragmatic competence of students.

scholarly journals Using Facebook to improve L2 German students’ socio-pragmatic skills

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Harting
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Pragmatic Skills ◽  
Pragmatic Knowledge

This study explores ways of using Facebook as a tool to improve the pragmatic competence of German as a foreign language students in Japan. Nine students of a textbook-based German class (CFER level A2) voluntarily participated in this blended learning approach, in which they were assigned weekly online tasks aimed at eliciting speech acts commonly used in online interaction. The tasks required the students write posts concerning their daily routines onto the timeline of a dedicated Facebook Group page and to comment on each other’s posts. In order to find out what difficulties learners face when producing certain speech acts, the students’ posts and comments were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively by determining the frequency, accuracy, and appropriateness of speech acts performed per task. The results suggest that the tasks developed seemed to be appropriate for eliciting a large number of speech acts, while types, frequency, and appropriateness of the speech acts produced varied significantly. As was revealed, difficulties in task performance did not only stem from a lack of L2 (socio-pragmatic) knowledge, but also from inexperience in the use of the network itself. For task performance students strongly relied on the expressions provided in pre-task activities. As the results of a post-course students’ survey indicate, most students agreed that using Social Networking Sites is an appropriate tool for language learning, and that they were able to increase their knowledge and use of German speech acts significantly during this course. However, only those students who frequently used SNS in their everyday lives seemed to be able to reap the full benefits of the project.

scholarly journals SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: ANALYZE OF PRAGMATIC FAILURE

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Rahmatul Khasanah
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Authentic Material ◽  
Pragmatic Failure

The paper is created based on the reality of communication in Indonesia that is done by language learner, as a foreign language. Not a public secret anymore if a failure occurs within communication of an Indonesian language learner with foreign people. Perhaps, the learners can communicate by using correct grammatical but he or she often does not understand the utterance that uttered by foreign people. In this case, pragmatic competence is needed by the learner in order to avoid a pragmatic failure. Giving an authentic material is also one of the ways to avoid a pragmatic failure and increase the learner’s pragmatic competence.

scholarly journals A Video-driven Approach to Promoting Pragmatic Development in the Context of English as a Foreign Language

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuha Abdullah Alsmari
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Pragmatic Development ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Experimental Group

While pragmatic competence has proven to be teachable over the past three decades, determining the most appropriate and effective approach to facilitating English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ pragmatic development is still a central concern for researchers of interlanguage pragmatics (ILP). An investigation into the effects of video-driven prompts on less-studied and more complex teaching speech acts, such as complaints, will significantly supplement the inconclusive results of pragmatic interventional studies in foreign language contexts. To this end, the present study aims to investigate the effects of metapragmatic instruction on English complaints through the implementation of video-driven prompts to raise Saudi female EFL students’ awareness of the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects associated with the production of appropriate and accurate target-like complaints during one academic semester. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to collect data from 62 English majors, assigned to an experimental group (n = 31) and a conventional group (n = 31), at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. To elicit the required data, a proficiency test and pre-/post-test written discourse completion tests (WDCT) were distributed among participants. The results of the post-test demonstrated significant improvement in participants’ pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic skills in the production of English complaints. The experimental group immensely outperformed the control group due to their exposure to authentic, contextualized video excerpts. The study supports the teachability of complaints as well as the benefits of incorporating metapragmatic awareness tasks based on contextually authentic input, which can, in turn, accelerate EFL students’ ability to produce pragmatically appropriate and accurate target-like complaints.

scholarly journals An Overview on Explicit and Implicit instructions on Learners’ Pragmatic Awareness in Making Request in English

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Saeedeh Shokouhi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Implicit Instruction ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Grammatical Competence ◽  
Pragmatic Awareness ◽  
Pragmatic Knowledge

<p>One of the important part of the pragmatics studies in recent years is about the intercultural communication. EFL learners should know both grammatical competence and also sociolinguistic rules to use the language in an appropriate context. This review explores the effect of the explicit and implicit instruction on the learners’ attention in the production of the speech act of request. Pragmatics includes “the study of how speakers use and understand speech acts” (Richards and Schmidt 2002). Moreover, pragmatics plays a very important role in the production and perception of the language. That is why interlocutors should have enough pragmatic knowledge to produce and perceive the proper and intended speech acts based on context. Therefore, having pragmatic competence is one of the key factors in the process of communication. Pragmatic competence in foreign language contexts is defined as the knowledge of communicative action or speech acts, how to perform it, and the ability to utilize the language in proper ways based on the context or contextual factors (Kasper 1997; Kasper &amp; Roever 2005).</p>

Speech acts of request and apology realised by Czech students of English as a foreign language: Selected findings of a pilot study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Lahodová
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Similar Data ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Oral Production ◽  
Pilot Investigation ◽  
Shed Light

During the second half of the 20th century, there was a shift in focus in second-language-acquisition research from linguistic competence to communicative and pragmatic competence (Hymes 1972, Canale & Swain 1980, Bachman 1990, Bachman & Palmer 1996, Usó-Juan & Martínez-Flor 2006). This resulted in a growing number of studies on speech acts in general. Motivated by a lack of studies on the speech acts of apology in conversations of Czech learners of English as a foreign language, my study aims to shed light on request and apology strategies used by Czech university students. The aim of this paper is to present the findings of a pilot investigation into the speech acts of apology and request. The first aim of the study is to compare two data collection techniques: the open-ended written discourse completion task (DCT) and the oral production task (OPT). The second aim is to investigate the use of request and apology strategies by Czech learners of English. The findings suggest that both of the data collection techniques produced very similar data. In terms of requests, most respondents opted for a conventional indirect strategy. In terms of apologies, respondents opted for statements of remorse, offers of repair and account.

The Effect of Language Learning Experience on the Appropriate Use of Speech Act ‘Request’

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 1060
Author(s):  
Zahra Bazyar ◽  
Ali Taghinezhad ◽  
Marziyeh Nekouizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Appropriate Use

Nowadays emphasizing linguistic competence is not a sufficient path to reach a target-like communicative competence. Pragmatic competence should be put emphasis on as well. The importance of learning speech acts which is one aspect in the pragmatics is clear to those who want to learn a second or foreign language. This study after investigating the interest of language learners in the acquisition of appropriate use of second language speech acts, traces the variation over time in the use of speech act of request in Iranian EFL University students and for further clarification a group of non-language University students. The results showed no effect of time on the appropriate use of speech act “request”.

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