A Pragmatic Study on English Teachers’ Speech Acts in Universities
Authors
Ying Shi
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Ying Shi
Available Online May 2018.
- DOI
- 10.2991/snce-18.2018.18How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- English teachers; Speech acts; English class; Teaching efficiency
- Abstract
The high quality teachers’ speech acts can effectively impart knowledge, organize the classroom, give demonstrations and make English teaching efficient. Based on speech act theory, the paper tries to analyze teachers’ directives, teachers’ questions and teachers’ feedbacks. The teachers and students of five universities are the subjects, and naturalistic observation and conversation analysis method are used in this study. Some significant conclusions from the paper are expected to meliorate teachers’ teaching methods, so as to increase teaching efficiency.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ying Shi PY - 2018/05 DA - 2018/05 TI - A Pragmatic Study on English Teachers’ Speech Acts in Universities BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Network, Communication and Education (SNCE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 89 EP - 92 SN - 2352-538X UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/snce-18.2018.18 DO - 10.2991/snce-18.2018.18 ID - Shi2018/05 ER -