THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND PRAGMATICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH
Keywords:
pragmatics, culture, authentic materials, awareness activities, intuitions, pragmatic awareness, input, outputAbstract
Learning English language is the demand for the new era. To learn not only English but also other languages, Pragmatics is necessary to include while teaching and learning a language. By application of different teaching and learning activities, students will become more active, fluent, successive communicators by involving in concrete acts in the classroom. Pragmatics should be taught from the early stage of acquiring language.
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