SURE: Developing Learners' Language Awareness through Pragmatic Instruction in the EFL Classroom

Abstract

A large number of English language learners in Indonesia tend to be recognised as “fluent fools” learners. They can make all correct sentences following the grammar rules but cannot communicate in appropriate manner. The phenomenon of this ‘incompetent learners” has been observed as a result of the absence of learners’ language awareness. Activities aimed at raising learners’ pragmatic competence and activities offering opportunities for communicative practice can be used as a way out of this faulty. The goal of this paper is to discuss activities utilized in pragmatic instruction. It has acronym named SURE—(See, Use, Review and Experience). Hopefully, this strategy will enable learner gradually to gain how language works and how to use language approppriate to a variety of communicative settings.