This research aims to examine Chinese EFL learners' performance on a listening comprehension task that focused on linguistic and pragmatic comprehension.Linguistic comprehension requires the listener to understand...This research aims to examine Chinese EFL learners' performance on a listening comprehension task that focused on linguistic and pragmatic comprehension.Linguistic comprehension requires the listener to understand vocabulary,syntax and other linguistic information,while pragmatic comprehension asks for the listener to understand contextual information,such as the role and status of the interlocutor(Rost 2002).An independent Sample T-test and a correlational study were conducted to explore two main problems.The first one dealt with whether there were developmental differences in the processing of pragmatic meaning and linguistic meaning across two groups of EFL learners with high and low proficiency and their comprehension of two subcomponents of pragmatic meaning — speech acts processing and conversational implicature processing.The second one explored the relationship between comprehension of pragmatic meaning and linguistic meaning,and the relationship between the two subcomponents.展开更多
文摘This research aims to examine Chinese EFL learners' performance on a listening comprehension task that focused on linguistic and pragmatic comprehension.Linguistic comprehension requires the listener to understand vocabulary,syntax and other linguistic information,while pragmatic comprehension asks for the listener to understand contextual information,such as the role and status of the interlocutor(Rost 2002).An independent Sample T-test and a correlational study were conducted to explore two main problems.The first one dealt with whether there were developmental differences in the processing of pragmatic meaning and linguistic meaning across two groups of EFL learners with high and low proficiency and their comprehension of two subcomponents of pragmatic meaning — speech acts processing and conversational implicature processing.The second one explored the relationship between comprehension of pragmatic meaning and linguistic meaning,and the relationship between the two subcomponents.