DEVELOPING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE WITH ENGLISH SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS
DEVELOPING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE WITH ENGLISH SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS

Author(s): Iulia Ignatiuc
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: pragmatic competence; pragmatic information; speech acts; metalanguage; pronominal reference; politeness; communication failure;
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the importance of pragmatic competence acquisition in the EFL classroom and on the great role the textbook plays in this process. It provides the results of an analysis of five English textbooks used in the schools of Moldova in the first five years of pupils’ studying English. The results show that all the textbooks contain some implicit and explicit pragmatic information, which, however, is not equally distributed. Special attention was paid to the treatment of speech acts in the textbooks. The results show that the success of pragmatic competence development depends on several factors revealed in the paper.

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