PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE IN SPEAKING

The goal of the current study is to examine the pragmatic competence instruction in the speaking for general communication course, to evaluate the students' pragmatic competence growth, and to determine the students' degree of pragmatic competence following exposure to the teacher's teaching methods. A qualitative case study design was used for this investigation. Data were gathered using Discourse Completion Tasks in tests and classroom observation (DCT). The processes taken to evaluate the data gathered through observation include documenting the occurrences, transcribing them, and coding them. According to the results, the two teachers who are teaching pragmatic competence encourage students to communicate orally, introduce equivalent expressions, increase students' awareness of pragmatic competence, identify expressions in context, introduce the politeness continuum, assign students to work in pairs to practice dialogue dealing with speech acts, and facilitate students' search for appropriateness in English communication. Keywords: Pragmatic, Competence, Speakin