3.2 Result of survey and analysis of the result
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From Table 2, it can be found that, although the test performance of pragmatic competence among students who
entered the university in 2005 was slightly better than students entering the university in 2006, students with a
score above 85 only accounted for 15.2%, whereas students with a score below 60 accounted for 23.1%.
Generally speaking, the English pragmatic competence of students in this university was still at a
medium-and-lower level. In order to further understand causes for pragmatic failure among university students,
the author made a detailed study on the testing answer of students. Research result was shown in Table 2.
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From Table 2, it can be found that, pragmatic failure caused by ignorance of English habits accounted for 42%,
whereas pragmatic failure that was caused by ignorance of the linguistic and cultural background of English
speaking countries accounted for 58%. In terms of causes for failure, there was no significant distinction
between the freshmen and sophomores. Thus, it can be found that, in college English teaching, teachers have not
had enough teaching of English cultural background in the process of college English teaching, and their
cultivation of students’ pragmatic competence still remains at the level of form and has not been put into
practice