Chinese College Students' English Grammar / Pragmatic Awareness and Competence

DOI

10.2991/icesame-17.2017.302How to use a DOI?

Keywords

grammar consciousness; pragmatic awareness; grammatical competence; pragmatic competence; English study

Abstract

This research adopts questionnaire on College English Majors' grammatical and pragmatic awareness degree was investigated, focusing on the relationship between China English Majors' grammar consciousness and grammatical competence, pragmatic awareness and pragmatic competence. The results of the study show that Chinese English Majors' pragmatic and grammatical awareness is not high enough, but the former is significantly higher than the latter. There is a significant correlation between the degree of pragmatic awareness and pragmatic competence, the level of grammatical awareness and the level of grammatical competence of Chinese English majors. In view of the importance of the level of consciousness to the development of language competence and the low level of pragmatic and grammatical awareness of Chinese English majors. In this paper, we should pay attention to the cultivation of students' pragmatic and grammatical awareness in English teaching, so as to improve their English language proficiency and pragmatic competence.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Mengqing Zhu
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - Chinese College Students' English Grammar / Pragmatic Awareness and Competence
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1398
EP  - 1402
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icesame-17.2017.302
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