Journal Teaching pragmatics in the language classroom

13^TH November

Teaching pragmatics in the language classroom

  This class was the continues of teaching pragmatics, it was meaningful for me, because the presentations began, and we did different activities in which we could include the most important aspects about pragmatics, these topics were interesting and useful to my daily life, to my future and also my  language teaching process.

 My partners explained about politeness, with some examples, we had to read a paper and identified the polite expressions, then we socialized them and the group explained why it is important, or usually when we should use it. I think be positive politeness is necessary in our lives, job, relationships with your friends, boyfriend, etc. because there are the good manners to ask for permission, ask for a favor, apologize, and we could have some problems in a different culture if we do not applied some manners or etiquette.

 The presentations were clear and I like the examples they used to explain the topics. Then my partners and me had our presentation,  the students made groups of three people, chose and emotion to dramatize the dialogue, all they participated actively, at the moment they had to act, was funny and clear the context and the emotion they had. At the end of our presentation we gave then some concepts of explanations about Greeting with a difference.

I really enjoyed this class, I felt good in our presentation, and I think the purpose of the activity was done. Only at first we were not paying all the attention necessary, but then the groups were involved in the rest of the class.