Speech Act Theory and Its Implications to English Teachers

DOI

10.2991/icmess-14.2014.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Speech Act Theory, Sociolinguistic competence, teaching approaches, Reading competence

Abstract

Briefly describe the Speech Act Theory and explain how language teachers benefit from the insights it provides into language use. Discuss whether and how these insights might be realized in teaching materials/strategies. It attempts to examine how the knowledge of SAT helps teachers understand what learners need to know to achieve communicative competence and how it can be realized in classes. Sociolinguistic competence is an important element of communicative competence and by raising learners’ awareness of using appropriate SAS with more communicative approaches. Finally it posits that reading competence should be included in communicative competence and through SA training, advanced students will learn to grasp an accurate indication of the author’s intention, which facilitates the overall communicative confidence of learners.

Copyright

© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Lei Chen
AU  - Qinghui Zhu
AU  - Zheqing Lei
PY  - 2014/01
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TI  - Speech Act Theory and Its Implications to English Teachers
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Management, Education and Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 1951-6851
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