Culture and Pragmatic Competence Development

The ultimate goal of language teaching is to cultivate students' communicative competence through written or oral means. In traditional teaching, teachers overemphasize the importance of language knowledge and neglect the cultivation of students' pragmatic competence, which often leads to various language barriers and pragmatic failures in communication. Therefore, foreign language teaching must focus more on the cultivation of students' pragmatic competence in order to meet the requirements of personnel training in the field of cross-cultural communication. Starting from intercultural communication, this paper probes into the cultivation and acquisition of pragmatic competence, and puts forward relevant suggestions on the cultivation of pragmatic competence in current foreign language teaching in China.