| Abstract: | Affected by the different cultures and customs,when the foreign language learners communicate in the target language,pragmatic failures will happen which will breakdown the communication. No matter how long the learners have studied the language,there will still exist some mistakes when they talk with native speakers. To avoid pragmatic failures in communication,it is required that the teachers should pay more attention to the students'pragmatic competence. This thesis analyzes the phenomena and the causes of pragnmtic failures in spoken English in Chinese students,then sives some suggestions to cultivate and improve the students'pragmatic competence in teaching English. |
