Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018)

The Cultural Turn of Business English Teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges Based on Pragmatic Failure Analysis

Authors
Yang Wang, Chunge Nie, Haiyan Zhao
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Yang Wang
Available Online November 2018.
DOI
10.2991/cesses-18.2018.58How to use a DOI?
Keywords
business English teaching; higher vocational college students; pragmatic failures; intercultural communication
Abstract

With the advancement of globalization, people from different cultural backgrounds are communicating with each other more and more frequently. Higher vocational students majoring in International Business and Business English are more likely to engage in foreign affairs after their graduation. It is necessary to develop their intercultural communication skills. However, the author has found that higher vocational students tend to make pragmatic failures in their daily English communication. This paper takes pragmatic failures in higher vocational college students’ English communication as an example to explore the cause of pragmatic failures and put forward the suggestion that English cultural knowledge should be added to business English teaching in higher vocational colleges.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-606-8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/cesses-18.2018.58How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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