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Teaching Speech Acts in EFL Classrooms: An Implicit Pedagogy
FENG Yi-xuan
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2016.07.002
Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, China
Language teaching is a combination of teaching syntax, content of language in use, and the social background of that language. As the study of the act in speech, speech acts naturally exist in social and interpersonal discourses. Thus it is of vital importance to let language learners to acquire its concept and principles. This paper is a brief introduction to the theories and approaches on speech acts as well as its application for ELT pedagogy. The paper is made up of three parts. In the first part, former investigations and theories on speech acts would be introduced and discussed. The second part is a discussion on communicative competence in English language teaching. In the third part, two sample tasks of implicit pedagogy for speech acts would be introduced. A conclusion of teaching speech acts implicitly is given out in the fourth part.
speech act, communicative competence, language teaching
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