Foreign Language Teaching Methods: Pragmatics

Contextualized language practice in situations.

Class lectures by the instructor on the nature of speech acts.

Practice in constructing dialogues with a partner.

Discussions in which the students and teacher focus on pragmatic elements in the talk or text.

The sociocultural norms they illustrate would avoid creating stereotypes.

They can emphasize both what the speaker says and what the listener says in reaction to sustain a coherent conversation.

They force the learners to cooperate to create something new.

They can oblige the learners to use speech acts they would never say in real situations.

In metapragmatic discussion the students discuss the origins and meaning of pragmatics.

The discussion about the uses of pragmatics and its subcategories is known as metapragmatics.

It is discussion that contains pragmatic implications in it, and students are asked to think about the discussion to find them.

It is discussion in which the teacher and students talk about pragmatic elements they observe in order to make them aware of pragmatics.

Dialogues are more fun and engaging than workbook activities.

They can help learners move from word-level practice to longer sentences, showing turn sequences, and can make the learners become aware of sociocultural differences in a context of communication.

Creating dialogues provides practice in grammar and vocabulary, which must be mastered before pragmatics can be expressed appropriately.

If dialogues are written by the learners themselves, they will be able to understand all the words, grammar, and pragmatics.