Place of Pragmatics in EFL Classroom

Abstract

This article’s main aim was to discuss the place of Pragmatics in EFL classrooms. Pragmatics is one of the branches of linguistics concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker and interpreted by a listener. Pragmatics has relatively recently become the focuses of attention in language studies. On the other hand, it is important to remember that pragmatics components have been used in language teaching contexts in recent years, syllabus design by language teachers worldwide. Many research works have been done by many language researchers in different aspects of pragmatics competence. Language teachers use pragmatics as a functional approach in the language classroom. However, pragmatics follows the general principles for men when they communicate with others. Pragmatics study sentences not in isolation but regarding contexts of situations, and it is defined as the interaction between a sequence of language and the real-world situation in which it is used.

Error Analysis and English Syllabus

“…We should understand that teaching English is difficult. Khansir and Pakdel (2021) argued that teaching English has some of the most complex problems in English foreign language classrooms. Error analysis always shows the place of the learner's errors in English and reduces the learner's problems in learning the language.…”