Objectives of the Study
a. To develop a second or foreign language pragmatic
competence
b. To study the development of pragmatic competence
alongside lexical and grammatical knowledge.
c. To study the pedagogical intervention in pragmatic
competence.
d. To study the possibility of developing pragmatic competence
in a second or foreign language,
Methodology
Research Instruments
Assessing students’ perception of the importance of Pragmatics
and of an eventual pragmatic-oriented language teaching calls
for a descriptive design. To achieve such an objective, it was
judged that the use of a questionnaire as a research tool is more
appropriate for it affords a good deal of precision and clarity
because the knowledge needed is controlled by the questions.
Population and Sample
In order to discover what students had retained from the module
of pragmatics and whether they were offered opportunities to
use this knowledge in the oral/written modules, the
questionnaire was submitted to120 University students of
different universities of Odisha, representing thus 23,64% of
the entire population. The sampling technique used to select the
survey subjects is random sampling technique, i.e. without
taking into consideration any parameter other than their
“availability” and cooperation.