THE ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN DEVELOPING THE PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE OF ENGLISH STUDENTS

This study aims to investigate the access and use of social networks by students majoring in English Studies with a high-quality program developing pragmatic competence. The quantitative research was carried out at Can Tho University (CTU), one most prestigious universities Mekong Delta, Vietnam. participants were 90 English-majored Department (courses 44 47) who studied Pragmatics. questionnaire used measure students' during class self-study Language – for findings showed that improve develop their abilities. commonly improving pragmatics Facebook Youtube. They also pointed common knowledge on about conversational implication, speech acts, politeness. results this suggested help language understand context utterances, convey exactly what they want say listeners, overcome barrier ambiguity based manner, position, time utterance.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0220/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>