Pragmatics & Language Tchg

Catalog description

Pragmatics and Language Teaching - Three semester hours Pragmatics and Language Teaching is an introduction to the role of pragmatics in the second language classroom. With an underlying focus in our readings and discussions on cross-cultural pragmatics, it investigates the following questions: What is pragmatics? How can it help classroom language teaching? How can we integrate pragmatics in the classroom? How can pragmatics help us to understand student development? This is an introductory level graduate course on pragmatics and language teaching, and no background in this area is required. Pre-requisites: ENG 555