DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE BY EFL PROFESSORS/TEACHERS AS CULTURAL DIPLOMATS

Cultural Linguistics

Pragmatics

Applied linguistics

understanding of behavioural differences of people across the world

becoming aware of members of another cultural group including their behaviour,
expectations, and values that people of both, the target or other world cultures have.

appreciating world literature as a source that portrays the life styles, way of living and
values of people in different countries

achieving both linguistics and communicative competences in that language and in such skills as attitudes, values and knowledge about a target culture

recognizing and valuing the cultural difference between people in the world

achieving mastery of the target language at phonological, semantic and pragmatic levels

learner- cantered approach to analyse the literary genres combined with linguistic elements

traditional teacher- cantered approach to use literary text as a basic source of information about the target culture

that students are encouraged to draw their own opinions, express feelings and share personal experience and relate them with the information from the texts

provides authentic linguistic input

facilitates student’s linguistic input

is highly entertaining and enjoyable class activity

literary texts encourage interaction, so they can be effectively used for whole- class discussions, for sharing feelings or exchanging opinions, and to develop their reflective and thinking abilities.

literary texts encourage interaction, so they can be effectively used for whole- class discussions, for sharing feelings or exchanging opinions, and to develop their reflective and thinking abilities

literary texts serve to expose the students to different cultures (clothes, manners, life styles, behavioural patterns, discourse, greetings, topics of conversation, food, beliefs, traditions, values, world views, etc.)

The Personal Growth Model

The Cultural Model

The Language Model

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