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1. Teaching Pragmatics in Context

   Fanny Law & Cherry Ngai San Francisco State University
2. Project Motivation Personal experiences New international students Awkwardness in conversation Background Pragmatics is not a focus of academic English Pragmatics is a multi-disciplinary subject However, Essential in daily social interaction
3. What is Pragmatics? Kasper, G. & Rose, K.R. (2001), Leech (1983), Thomas (1983) Pragmatics Sociopragmatics Pragmalinguistics
4. Sociopragmatics Intercultural Communication Conceptual Differences of Pragmatic Norms A Relative Concept (Moeschler, 2004) Situation-Based (Wolf & Polzenhagen, 2006)
5. Pragmalinguistics Interlangauge Pragmatics Language Proficiency ≠ Pragmatic Competence Exposure to the target language context Pragmatic Transfer Learning Process Kasper & Schmidt (1996), Kasper (1992)
6. Pedagogical Implications Teachability Implicit Instruction & Explicit Instruction (Koike & Pearson, 2005) Awareness Raising (Bardovi-Harlig & Griffin, 2005)
7. Guideline for Teaching Pragmatics Context Utterance Interpretation Interlocutors’ Status Pragmatic Competence Utterance Inferences Register Cross-cultural Differences Non-verbal Communication Semantics & Syntax
8. Material Development Speech Act Research Conversation Analysis
9. Speech Act Corpus Data Apologies The Suzuki SAC (Speech Act Corpora) Cohen & Olshtain. (1981). Americen apologies. http://www.carla.umn.edu/speechacts/apologies/american.html
10. Video
11. Student Worksheet – Awareness Raising Activity
12. Student Worksheet (Con’t)
13. Follow-up Activities Group Discussions Elicit Ss’ background pragmatic knowledge Negotiations raise their awareness of differences Instructions Applying Corpus data to teaching materials Script writing / Role play Have the Ss provide solutions
14. References Bardovi-Harlig, K. & Griffin, R. (2005). L2 pragmatic awareness: Evidence from the ESL classroom. System 33 (3): 401-415. Crystal, D. (1985). A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. 2nd. Edition. Oxford: Blackwell. Kasper, G. (1992) Pragmatic transfer. Second language research, 8 (3), 203-231. Kasper, G. & Blum-Kulka, S. (1993). Interlanguage pragmatics: An introduction. In G. Kasper & S. Blum Kulka (Eds.), Interlanguage pragmatics. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Kasper, G. & Rose, K.R. (2001). Pragmatics and language teaching. In K.R. Rose & G. Kasper (Eds.), Pragmatics in language teaching. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Kasper, G. Schmidt, R. (1996). Developmental issues in interlanguage pragmatics. Studies in second language acquisition, 18 (2), 149-169. Koike, D. A. & Pearson, L. (2005). The effect of instruction and feedback in the development of pragmatic competence. System 33(3): 481-501. LoCastro, V. (2003). An introduction to pragmatics: social action for language teachers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Mey, J. L. (1993). Pragmatics: An introduction. Oxford: Blackwell. Moeschler, J. (2004). Intercultural pragmatics: a cognitive approach. Intercultural pragmatics 1 (1), 49-70. Robinson, J. D. (2004). The sequential organization of “explicit” apologies in naturally occurring English. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37(3): 291-330. Suzuki, T. (2007). The Suxuki SAC (Speech Act Corpora). Wolf, H. G. & Polzenhagen, F. (2006). Intercultural communication in English: Arguments for a cognitive approach to intercultural pragmatics. Intercultural pragmatics, 3 (3), 285-321.
15. Thank you for coming! Special thanks go to all our friends at San Francisco State University! Fanny Law: fannylaw@sfsu.edu Cherry Ngai: ngai@sfsu.edu