USING CULTURAL PRAGMATIC SCHEMAS IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS
This study investigates the usefulness of using cultural pragmatic schemas in improving Arab students’ communicative skills. Linguistic behavior is reflected through repetitive patterns of highly organized cultural repertoires. To better understand the relationship between such repertoires and actua...
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| description | This study investigates the usefulness of using cultural pragmatic schemas in improving Arab students’ communicative skills. Linguistic behavior is reflected through repetitive patterns of highly organized cultural repertoires. To better understand the relationship between such repertoires and actual language used by interlocutors, Sharifian suggested a new framework for studying cultural pragmatic schema. A group of Gulf University for Science and Technology students in Kuwait was given sets of specific speech acts and were asked to apply them in pertinent contexts. Having discerned the synergy between speech acts, as action verbs, pragmemes, as contextualized speech acts, and practs, as concrete manifestations of such acts, students have become more aware of the use and effectiveness of pragmatic schemas. They have become more confident in using pragmatic schemas in achieving their communicative goals. There is a great amount of cultural knowledge that is deliberately ignored in the English classroom because of prioritizing monolingualism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-edc8ffd5dc884a32840e3ede603017142022-12-22T02:21:21ZengRegional Department of Defense Resources Management StudiesJournal of Defense Resources Management2068-94032068-94032019-06-011012540USING CULTURAL PRAGMATIC SCHEMAS IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE SKILLSHussain Al Sharoufi0Gulf University for Science and Technology KuwaitThis study investigates the usefulness of using cultural pragmatic schemas in improving Arab students’ communicative skills. Linguistic behavior is reflected through repetitive patterns of highly organized cultural repertoires. To better understand the relationship between such repertoires and actual language used by interlocutors, Sharifian suggested a new framework for studying cultural pragmatic schema. A group of Gulf University for Science and Technology students in Kuwait was given sets of specific speech acts and were asked to apply them in pertinent contexts. Having discerned the synergy between speech acts, as action verbs, pragmemes, as contextualized speech acts, and practs, as concrete manifestations of such acts, students have become more aware of the use and effectiveness of pragmatic schemas. They have become more confident in using pragmatic schemas in achieving their communicative goals. There is a great amount of cultural knowledge that is deliberately ignored in the English classroom because of prioritizing monolingualism.http://www.jodrm.eu/issues/Volume10_issue1/02%20-%20sharoufi_2019_1.pdfCultural SchemasPragmatic schemasPragmemesPractsAllopracts |
| spellingShingle | Hussain Al Sharoufi USING CULTURAL PRAGMATIC SCHEMAS IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS Journal of Defense Resources Management Cultural Schemas Pragmatic schemas Pragmemes Practs Allopracts |
| title | USING CULTURAL PRAGMATIC SCHEMAS IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS |
| title_full | USING CULTURAL PRAGMATIC SCHEMAS IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS |
| title_fullStr | USING CULTURAL PRAGMATIC SCHEMAS IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS |
| title_full_unstemmed | USING CULTURAL PRAGMATIC SCHEMAS IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS |
| title_short | USING CULTURAL PRAGMATIC SCHEMAS IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS |
| title_sort | using cultural pragmatic schemas in improving students communicative skills |
| topic | Cultural Schemas Pragmatic schemas Pragmemes Practs Allopracts |
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