Relevance of Pragmatics at B. Ed. Level

Abstract

The presentresearch work entitled“RelevanceofPragmaticsat B. Ed.Level”was carried out to find out the perception of students and teachers ontherelevance of teaching pragmatics at B. Ed. level. I used both primary andsecondary sources of data in this study. I purposively selected four campuses–Babai Multiple Campus, Amar Shahid Multiple Campus, Tikapur MultipleCampus and Birendra Multiple campus. Twenty students and one teacher fromeach campus were selected using non-random judgemental samplingprocedure. They were given questionnaires for the collection of primary data.The secondary sources of data were various books, journals and internetsourcesrelated to the study. This study shows that majority of the students andteachers found teaching pragmatics asrelevant at B. Ed level, in the sense that,it provided the knowledgeof understanding language incontext. It also helpedto developlanguage skills and has made multi-lingual literacy worksaccessible. Likewise, majority of the students, i.e.,87.5% thought thatpragmatics wasessentialfor ELT students. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study withgeneral background, i.e., importance and scope of pragmatics, key concepts ofpragmatics andteaching pragmatics. It further includes the review of literature,objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals withthe procedure adopted to carry out the research. It contains the information onthe source of data, sampling procedure, tools, process of data collection andlimitations of the study. Chapter threeconsists of the analysis and interpretationof the data collected through questionnaires.Chapter four deals with the majorfindingsof the study on the basis of analysis and interpretation of the data. Italso deals with some recommendations made on the basis of findings of thestudy. Finally, chapter four is followed by the references and appendices.