DEVELOPING ENGLISH PRIMARY LEARNERS’ PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH
The article presents practical ways to harmonize English teaching by balancing linguistic, sociolinguistic competences with the pragmatic one at primary school. We employ psycholinguistic approach to facilitate close to real life communication in the classroom. The PURPOSE of this paper is to reve...
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description | The article presents practical ways to harmonize English teaching by balancing linguistic, sociolinguistic
competences with the pragmatic one at primary school. We employ psycholinguistic approach to facilitate
close to real life communication in the classroom. The PURPOSE of this paper is to reveal an experimental
psycholinguistic shift from prioritizing linguistic with the elements of sociolinguistic competences to a
more balanced model of teaching speaking young primary learners, which resembles natural
communication and includes pragmatic competence too. METHODS: The paper presents the results of an
action research carried out among 9-10-year old schoolchildren from 3 primary schools. During the
research, we turned to interviewing teachers and learners, used questionnaires and observation. We
employed analysis and experiment during the intervention. The RESULTS reveal students’ interactive
problems while speaking in English realized in their bodies, articulatory blockages predetermined by
emotional and psychological tension as well as the lack of appropriate language and pragmatic skills. In
CONCLUSIONS, we have developed a range of recommendations with examples to facilitate teacher’s
work with primary students’ pragmatic competence along with linguistic and sociocultural ones. |
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spelling | doaj.art-0caefd89f42f406ba002ec58390ed63d2022-12-22T04:24:06ZengTrakia UniversityTrakia Journal of Sciences1313-35512022-09-0120319620210.15547/tjs.2022.03.005DEVELOPING ENGLISH PRIMARY LEARNERS’ PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACHO. SushkevychThe article presents practical ways to harmonize English teaching by balancing linguistic, sociolinguistic competences with the pragmatic one at primary school. We employ psycholinguistic approach to facilitate close to real life communication in the classroom. The PURPOSE of this paper is to reveal an experimental psycholinguistic shift from prioritizing linguistic with the elements of sociolinguistic competences to a more balanced model of teaching speaking young primary learners, which resembles natural communication and includes pragmatic competence too. METHODS: The paper presents the results of an action research carried out among 9-10-year old schoolchildren from 3 primary schools. During the research, we turned to interviewing teachers and learners, used questionnaires and observation. We employed analysis and experiment during the intervention. The RESULTS reveal students’ interactive problems while speaking in English realized in their bodies, articulatory blockages predetermined by emotional and psychological tension as well as the lack of appropriate language and pragmatic skills. In CONCLUSIONS, we have developed a range of recommendations with examples to facilitate teacher’s work with primary students’ pragmatic competence along with linguistic and sociocultural ones.http://tru.uni-sz.bg/tsj/Volume%2020,%202022,Number%203,%20Series%20Social%20Sciences/5_O.Sushkevych.pdfcommunicationinteractionharmonizationprimary schoolinga balanced model |
spellingShingle | O. Sushkevych DEVELOPING ENGLISH PRIMARY LEARNERS’ PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH Trakia Journal of Sciences communication interaction harmonization primary schooling a balanced model |
title | DEVELOPING ENGLISH PRIMARY LEARNERS’ PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH |
title_full | DEVELOPING ENGLISH PRIMARY LEARNERS’ PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH |
title_fullStr | DEVELOPING ENGLISH PRIMARY LEARNERS’ PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH |
title_full_unstemmed | DEVELOPING ENGLISH PRIMARY LEARNERS’ PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH |
title_short | DEVELOPING ENGLISH PRIMARY LEARNERS’ PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH |
title_sort | developing english primary learners pragmatic competence psycholinguistic approach |
topic | communication interaction harmonization primary schooling a balanced model |
url | http://tru.uni-sz.bg/tsj/Volume%2020,%202022,Number%203,%20Series%20Social%20Sciences/5_O.Sushkevych.pdf |
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