Foreign Language Teaching Methods: Pragmatics

1. Most pragmatic expressions and appropriate reactions to them can only be taught at more advanced levels of learner proficiency in the target language:

2. The greatest difference between beginning learners and those more advanced when they produce speech acts is that the advanced learners do not make errors when they speak.

3. The beginning level learners of a foreign language depend a great deal on their interlocutors when they express speech acts.

4. The Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century reflect many aspects related to pragmatics.