IMPORTANCE OF IMPROVING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE OF ESP LEARNERS.

English for Specific Purposes (ESP), pragmalinguistic norms, pragmatic competence, intercultural pragmatics, social context, communication.

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Recent years teaching English language became more complicated process. The reason is advances in teaching methods, interactive activities and implementation of technology. Furthermore, students are already coming to university with fundamental knowledge of English language. Even in universities where English is taught as ESP, learners possess at least elementary level. Some students obtained IELTS certificate which proves their ability in terms of speaking, writing, listening and reading. However, focusing only to these four skills does not guarantee to be fluent in English language. Pragmatic competence also plays crucial role in this process. Methods like observation, questionnaire and quantitative data collection are used in this research. The paper is focuses on improving the importance of improving pragmatic competence of ESP learners