新时期英语专业学生语用能力调查报告及启示

A Survey of English Majors' Pragmatic Competence and Its Implications in the New Era

本文在分析语用能力构成维度的基础上,重新设计语用能力问卷,并结合访谈的方法,对新时期英语专业学生的语用能力进行调查后发现:随着学生语言能力的提高,语用能力并没有自然而然地随之提高;研究还发现,从语用能力的三个构成维度来看,学生对文化知识掌握最好,其次是适切度,在言语行为知识层面,学生的表现最差。文章进而在讨论成因的基础上,提出对英语专业培养模式的启示。

This article reports a survey into the pragmatic competence of English majors,employing a combination of a pragmatic questionnaire and interviews. The questionnaire is newly designed upon an analysis of the components of pragmatic competence. It concludes that learners＇ pragmatic competence does not develop with their linguistic knowledge improvement.Students did best in cultural knowledge,followed by the appropriateness of language use,with speech act knowledge the worst.Accordingly some implications are discussed.