THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CONDUCTING PRAGMATIC ACTIVITIES IN EFL CLASSES

Abstract

The author of this article discusses Pragmatics as science of linguistics and its role in language learning; moreover, this new approach, which appeared in linguistics in late 20th century thrust linguists and language teacher has to look back at their teaching and initiate innovations in language education. It should be noted that Pragmatic competence is one of the essential type of competences that a language learner is supposed to acquire in order to establish successful communicative environment when one aimed to produce communicative act. By having enough information about Pragmatics, language educators will be able to implement exceptional activities that develops language lea’ pragmatic competence in their interpersonal communication. Therefore, the types of pragmatic activities has been identified as an effective ways are also has been discussed by pointing out their significance in EFL classes.