Hints from Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics in the Teaching of Listening and Speaking in ESL

摘要

＜正＞ Communicative language teaching method has beenadopted for years in China. However, can students who canspeak fluent English without grammatical mistakes be regardedas successful communicators in English? As a matter of fact, alot of Chinese abroad are regarded as "rude, badcommunicators" by the native speakers of English not becauseof their awkward English, but because they don’t know when tosay what and how to say it appropriately. Particularly, they do