Understanding utterances : The need for pragmatic competence / Kamisah Ariffin

• Main Author: Ariffin, Kamisah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang 2004
• Subjects: Language and education; Oral communication. Speech; PE English language
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31542/1/31542.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31542/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

The colossal time spent on learning grammatical rules of a language may still not make a learner proficient in that language. The sociolinguistics perspectives have moved to the notion that there is more to learning a language than learning about rules and grammar. Since the use of a language is see...