DEVELOPING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE IN FUTURE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Аннотация

This article examines methodological approaches to developing pragmatic competence in pre-service English language teachers. Pragmatic competence—the ability to use language appropriately in social and cultural contexts—is a critical component of communicative competence. The paper discusses how teaching pragmatic elements such as speech acts, politeness strategies, conversational implicature, and context-sensitive expressions can be effectively integrated into teacher training programs. Attention is given to practical methods, such as role-playing, discourse analysis, and authentic material usage, which help futureteachers bothacquire and later transmit pragmaticknowledge totheirstudents. Key words: pragmatic competence, pre-service teachers, communicative competence, English language teaching, discourse strategies, teacher training, methodology, speech acts.