Developing efl learners' cross-cultural pragmatic understanding through the teaching of listening comprehension : a successful personal teaching experience

Abstract EN

This paper is prompted by the fact that despite the numerous researches and guidelines that have been produced in order to help foreign language teachers to integrate components of intercultural communication in the English classroom, especially the pragmatic ones, they remain insufficient for untrained novice teachers.

Practical strategies on how to exactly guide teachers to include some aspects of pragmatics are very limited.

Teachers with lack of experience and appropriate teaching strategies might find difficulties in building a rigid framework for setting instructive strategies around pragmatic themes.

Therefore, as a contribution to previous researches, the main aim of this paper is to share some specific personal teaching practices and showing concrete teaching models for teaching EFL learners' pragmatic skills through the program of listening comprehension.