THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PRAGMATIC AWARENESS IN THE TEACHING OF EXCHANGES

Abstract

This article deals with the pragmatic aspect in the teaching of exchanges to college students. The pragmatic aspect here refers to presupposition. Presupposition contains implicit meaning. Presupposition is embedded in an exchange as the context. Understanding it is the purpose of teaching exchanges. Prior to that, relevant grammar and vocabulary are introduced in a simple language and way. In this article I analyzed seven exchanges taken from Readers' Digest from June to August 2010. It is a fact that setting determines the implicit meaning or presupposition. Knowing the preposition is not enough. As a teacher of EFLI also include a sample lesson which consists of grade level, teaching objectives (purpose), (sample) materials and teaching procedures. At the end of this paper I give some concluding remarks. Keywords: significance, pragmatics, exchanges