The Research On The Listening Of Teaching Chinese As A Second Language Based On Pragmatics

Pragmatics, which is concerned with users’ precise application and understanding of languages, has close connection with second-language listening. It is necessary for listening teachers to familiarize these students with pragmatics knowledge so as to help them comprehend and use Chinese in a more precise and appropriate way.This paper studies the listening of teaching Chinese as a second language(TCSL) from the perspective of pragmatics, with a focus on how listening classes in TCSL provide opportunities and environment for the development of students’ pragmatic competence. Classroom teaching is an activity centering on textbooks by teachers and students. Therefore, this paper carries out its research in terms of students, textbooks, and teachers.In order to get to know students’ learning situation as well as their mastery of pragmatic knowledge in listening classroom, the researcher conducted questionnaire research and interviews among international students in the School of International Education of Tianjin University. It is found that the utility of listening courses affects students’ fondness for them and that students don’t have an adequate knowledge of listening strategies and pragmatics. Besides, it is also found that students often lack confidence when faced with questions related to the exploration of speakers’ real intentions.As A Coursebook on Chinese Listening(III), which is widely used in Chinese universities, is seldom studied from a pragmatic perspective, the writer presents an analysis of its pragmatic elements in Chapter Three. It is observed that the coursebook gives priority to training students to understand speakers’ intention and conveying real intentions through conversational implications and colloquial expressions. At the same time, the coursebook also includes a substantial amount of communicative cultural elements. Besides, this paper also analyzes the cultural introduction method and Chinese cultural words in the textbook, and investigates the colloquial features in the listening material in the coursebook with the help of Cubase 5 and conversational implication analysis. In the end, this paper also innovatively proposes some suggestions to the problems in the coursebook.The key for listening courses to provide environment for the development of students’ pragmatic capacity lies in training students’ pragmatic consciousness and competence in teaching process. Based on the writer’s teaching experience, the feedback in the investigation and interview as well as the research results of other scholars, this paper explores the method of how teachers of listening courses can introduce pragmatic knowledge in teaching, and puts forwards the teaching principles and strategies for TCSL listening courses, in the hope of providing pragmatics teaching references for teachers of listening courses.