Chinese College Students' Pragmatic Awareness in English Learning

摘要

This paper aims to explore Chinese college students' pragmatic awareness in English learning. The pragmatics is analyzed in terms of the amount of pragmatic knowledge Chinese college students believed to have and receive from their teachers, peers, course book and exams. Results shows that although Chinese college students are aware of the importance of pragmatics, they do not get enough pragmatic knowledge; additionally, peers do not care enough pragmatics and course book and exams do not cover enough pragmatic information.