Exploring Textbooks and Methods for Teaching Communicative Functions = Exploring Textbooks and Methods for Teaching Communicative Functions

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

With a major shift in the focus of second language teaching from a grammatical to a communicative approach over the last two decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to developing second language Iearners` communicative competence. Despite much emphasis on the acquisition of communicative abilities by these learners, there has been Iess emphasis on the role of classroom teaching in developing second language Iearners` such abilities. A need was also found for heightening the pragmatic awareness of English as a second Language (ESL) / English as a foreign Language (EFL) teachers themselves·to be more effective in meeting the need of Iearners to develop communicative abilities in their classrooms. Teachers should be aware of how language is used in a real context to provide the authentic language input to Iearners in teaching a second language as well as to develop and evaluate second language teaching materials. Speech act research can provide us with a useful framework to better understand rules of speaking and new insights into how to teach Iearners such social rules for effective second language communication. The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of guiding second language learners to acquire communicative abilities by focusing on speech acts. More specifically. it provides a framework for apology speech acts and examines the manner in which apoIogy speech acts are presented in current ESL / EFL textbooks. It further makes suggestions for teaching apologies to second language learners.