Hints from Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics in the Teaching of Listening and Speaking in ESL

Research of discourse analysis and pragmatics suggests that English language assumes a three-part feature in communication: locution, illocution, and perlocution. Therefore, the teaching of communicative English language should follow the same pattern. But for years, the classroom teaching as well as the teaching materials in China focuses mainly on locution, but ignores the other two aspects, which, in China, has led to the consequence of creating a large amount of bad non-native communicators in English. On the basis of this diagnosis, this paper proposes a solution to this problem.