Applied Pragmatics and Competence Relations in Language Learning and Teaching

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show how a course in language teaching should be designed to help learners develop their pragmatic competence by making use of four language skills in a communicative way. Listening, writing and reading do not occur in isolation in communicative contexts. Thus, competence is the type of knowledge which the learners acquire, develop, learn, use and forget. The purpose of the language teacher should be to provide learners a range of opportunities to experience the use of language in different socio-cultural contexts by creatively and critically using language in different interactional patterns which would make them successful communicators in the target language.

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Öz

Bu araştırmanın amacı yabancı dil öğretiminde bir dersin dört dil becerisini iletişimsel bir yaklaşımla kullanarak öğrencilerin edimbilimsel yetilerini geliştirecek şekilde nasıl tasarlanması gerektiğini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Dinleme-anlama, yazma ve okuma-anlama iletişimsel bağlamlarda birbirlerinden bağımsız halde bulunmazlar. Dolayısiyle, yeti, öğrencilerin edindiği, geliştirdiği, öğrendiği, kullandığı ve unuttuğu bir bilgidir. Yabancı dil öğreten bir öğretmenin amacı; öğrencilerine dili etkileşimsel sosyo-kültürel bağlamlarda, yaratıcı ve gerektiği gibi farklı iletişimsel kalıplarda, öğrencileri hedef dilde başarılı iletişimciler olarak yetiştirebilmeye olanak tanıyacak çeşitli fırsatlar sunmaktır

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Edimbilim, Edimbilimsel yeti, Söylem, Dil Öğretimi, Bağlam, İçerik

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20. İsmail ERTON completed his BA. and MA. at the Faculty of Letters, English
21. Linguistics Department of Hacettepe University. He received his PhD. from the
22. Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching Department of Hacettepe
23. University. From 1994 to 1997 he worked as an instructor at Ankara University,
24. Language Teaching Center, and 1997-2005 at Bilkent University, Faculty Academic
25. English Program. Currently, he is the Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Arts and
26. Sciences, Department of Translation and Interpretation at Atılım University, Ankara.