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Date Posted: 14:46:08 09/17/07 Mon
Author: lourdes
Subject: Re: TEXT 9 - Pragmatics in DA (Celce-Murcia & Olshtain)
In reply to: Paula Diniz 's message, "Re: TEXT 9 - Pragmatics in DA (Celce-Murcia & Olshtain)" on 11:23:34 09/17/07 Mon

Hi Paula,

You know I liked our text very much and I got surprised how pragmatic is so important in our profession.

According Celce-Murcia & Olshtain(pag 19), Syntax describes relationship between linguistic forms and how they are arranged grammatically. Semantics describes how meaning is encoded in the language and also the relationship between language forms and entities in real or imaginary worlds. Finally we have pragmatics which deals with the relationship holding between linguistic forms and the human beings who use these forms.

According to these definitions, we can see why teachers who love grammar, sometimes are not so well successful. It is almost impossible teaching any language without pragmatics.

In fact I didn�t know that I liked pragmatics so much. Everything I try to teach I make a relationship with contexts , cultures, etc... Because I�m sure it is easy to our students understand and imcorporate the new language.Am I clear? What do you think about it.

>Reading the text, I perceived how the importance to
>insert pragmatics in the context of language teaching.
>It is not enough teach vocabulary, grammar ruler, etc
>if learners do not know the functional purpose of any
>utterance. Just to start this discussion, how would
>you teach pragmatics in classroom?

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Re: TEXT 9 - Pragmatics in DA (Celce-Murcia & Olshtain) -- Laura, 17:11:18 09/21/07 Fri