摘要
Foreign language teachers may have long observed learners' grammatically correct, yet situationally inappropriate verbal communication. To make sure they conduct speech acts appropriately, language learners should possess communicative skills and pragmatic competence. This paper addresses how to raise learners' pragmatic awareness through making requests in English.By exploring the verbal indirectness and politeness of requests, the paper aims to facilitate learners' ability to make socially appropriate utterances.
Foreign language teachers may have long observed learners’grammatically correct, yet situationally inappropriate ver-bal communication. To make sure they conduct speech acts appropriately, language learners should possess communicative skills and pragmatic competence. This paper addresses how to raise learners’pragmatic awareness through making requests in English. By exploring the verbal indirectness and politeness of requests, the paper aims to facilitate learners ’ability to make socially appro-priate utterances.
出处
《海外英语》
2014年第11X期269-270,共2页
Overseas English
