Pragmatics and Language Teaching

Tahun Akademik:
Genap 2023/2024
Kelas-Offr:
C-C
Deskripsi:
The course familiarizes the students with the four areas that pragmatics is concerned with: 1) the study of speaker meaning; 2) the study of contextual meaning; 3) the study of how more gets communicated than is said; and, 4) the study of the expression of relative distance. For this purpose, the most pertinent concepts of these areas are introduced and discussed: deixis, reference and inference, presupposition, cooperation and implicature, speech acts and events, politeness, conversation, and discourse. All these issues are linked to language teaching.
Capaian Pembelajaran
  • 1) interpret some pragmatic concepts and theories in relation to the scope of pragmatics
  • 2) identify the concepts of contexts, implicature and references as part of micropragmatics
  • 3) distinguish the concepts of pragmatic principles, speech acts, conversation analysis and politeness strategies
  • 4) analyze and relate the concepts of pragmatics with language phenomena in real-life situations
  • 5) applying pragmatics concepts in language teaching to develop learners’ pragmatic competence
  • 6) critically review the accommodation of pragmatics in ELT instructional materials
  • 7) compose a 1500 word essay report on the students’ mini research
Daftar Pustaka:
  • Mey, J.L. 2007. (6th Edition). Pragmatics. An Introduction. Oxford. Blackwell Publishing.
  • Horn L.R. & Ward, G. (2006). The handbook of pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  • Brown, P. & Levinson, S.C. 1987. Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mey, J.L. 2007. Pragmatics: An Introduction, 2nd edition. Maiden: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Bardovi-Harlig, K. & Mahan-Taylor, R. (2003). Introduction to teaching pragmatics. English Teaching Forum.
  • Brock, M.N., & Nagasaka, Y. (2005). Teaching pragmatics in the EFL classroom? SURE you can!. TESL Reporter, 38(1), 17-26.
  • Meier, A.J. (1997). Teaching the universals of politeness. ELT Journal, 51(1), 21-28. Websites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mje8uSl2hS4