NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 語用學與語言教學(6038)
(Eng.) Pragmatics and Language Teaching
Offering Dept Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher Chih-hsiang Shu
Department Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Graduate Language 中/英文 Semester 2026-SPRING
Course Description Pragmatics studies how contexts influence the interpretation of meaning in language. The descriptions and theories of this discipline can help language teachers to teach a foreign language. This course examines the basic concepts, such as implicatures, speech acts, indexes, and politeness, and then demonstrates how to incorporate these concepts and use the awareness of the concepts to language teaching. The focus is on descriptions of the pragmatic phenomena and training pragmatic teaching techniques.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
1. Learning pragmatic concepts
2. Developing skills to solve pragmatic problems
3. Applying pragmatics to language teaching
Exercises
Discussion
Lecturing
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Introduction. Pragmatics in linguistics
Week 2 Pragmatics and language use
Week 3 Gricean implicature
Week 4 Gricean implicature in language teaching
Week 5 Presupposition
Week 6 Presupposition in language teaching
Week 7 Speech acts
Week 8 Speech acts in language teaching
Week 9 Mid-term presentation of pragmatics teaching
Week 10 Information structure
Week 11 Information structure in language teaching
Week 12 Politeness
Week 13 Politeness in language teaching
Week 14 Sociopragmatics and semantiopragmatics
Week 15 Sociopragmatics and semantiopragmatics in language teaching
Week 16 End-of-term presentation of pragmatics teaching
self-directed
learning		    03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia.
Evaluation
1 Class participation 25%
2 Homework 25%
3 Midterm presentation 25%
4 End-of-term presentation 25%
Textbook & other References
Handouts
Additional references:
Introduction to pragmatics (Betty Birner, Wiley-Blackwell)
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Oxford University Press)
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
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Office Hours
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