This article begins by accounting the development of Second language theories .It describes major ESL theories ever since the 18th century to those currently adopted in ESL field. Then it proceeds to demonstrate their influences on EFL teaching in China, like nowadays an increasing awareness of non-cognitive factors in teaching foreign languages, reforms in some traditional teaching methodologi...

Pragmatics is an area that may be underrepresented in ESL/EFL teaching. This study aims to investigate what extent pragmatics taught international EFL setting. For this purpose, 28 class sessions by 17 teachers from seven different cultural backgrounds were observed for their inclusion of pragmatic features classes. The results indicate, despite teaching school setting, these did not make impor...