语用教学研究述评及展望

Review on Research into Pragmatic Teaching and Directions for Future Studies

近年来国内外语用教学研究的主要关注点是语用教学的必要性和可行性,为研究目的而有计划进行的语用教学和注重语言知识讲解和分析的课堂教学的对比,以及显性语用教学和隐性语用教学等各种教学方式对学习者语用习得所产生的不同影响。未来的研究应该更侧重于课堂观察研究以探索真实外语课堂语用教学现状以及教师语用输入,教师的语用意识及其对课堂教学的影响,还可以调查除了言语行为外的其他语用特征的教学并区分语用语言能力和社交语言能力。

This paper reviews previous studies on pragmatic teaching.The majority of available research seeks to prove the necessity and feasibility of pragmatic instruction,the comparison between planned pedagogical action and traditional language class in terms of pragmatic instruction,and the advantage of explicit pragmatic teaching over implicit teaching concerning the effect on the acquisition of pragmatic knowledge.Thus,it is proposed that future research should lay more emphasis on the process-product investigation of foreign language classroom in an endeavor to uncover actual classroom pragmatic teaching as well as the pragmatic input by EFL teachers.In addition,teachers' pragmatic awareness and its influence on their teaching practice are also worth exploring.Another direction for future research is to explore the teaching of other aspects of pragmatic knowledge apart from speech acts.Furthermore,future studies should distinguish pragmalinguistic competence from sociopragmatic competence.