Fostering Heart to Heart Communication Skills, Ver. 1

摘要

This article describes a course designed to foster pragmatic awareness among Japanese university students. Textbook activities that utilize authentic American native speaker, Japanese second language speaker English and Japanese native speaker speech act data are described. Then, author developed materials that foster more appropriately complex output, facilitate broader pragmatic and intercultural communication conceptual understanding, and which assess pragmatic comprehension and ability are explained and critiqued.