青海地区少数民族大学生跨文化语用能力研究

A Study of Cross-culture Pragmatic Skills of the Minority College Students in Qinghai

本文采用问卷调查的形式,对青海地区少数民族非英语专业大学生在跨文化交际中的英语语用能力进行了测试。其结果表明:学生的语用能力相对较差,在特定的语言环境中语用失误的现象明显,三年级与一年级学生的语用能力没有表现出明显差异,这表明语言学习者语言语用能力的高低与语言综合水平成正比;采用定量与定性结合的方法分析了少数民族学生在英语学习中的共性问题。

This paper, through a test on cross-culture pragmatic skills of the non-English major minority students in Qinghai, shows that the pragmatic knowledge of the students in the specific context is relatively poor, the pragmatic ability of the first year students and the third year students did not show any obvious differences and it further shows the pragmatic ability of the English learners depends on their comprehensive language ability. Based on the above result, this paper then makes a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the common problems the minority students have in English learning, explores the reasons that results in the problems and, as a solution, some suggestions are offered.