Research On The Cultivation Of English Pragmatic Ability Of Students Majoring In Tourism Management In Secondary Vocational Schools.

Under the background of globalization,the rapid development of international communication provides an opportunity for the growth of foreign tourism,which not only requires a large number of foreign tourism practitioners,but also puts forward higher and stricter requirements on the English pragmatic competence and comprehensive quality of tourism professionals.Secondary vocational technology education is aimed at cultivating skilled talents to meet the needs of society.Tourism service technology education focuses on providing qualified staff for catering,hotels,tourism and other service industries.Compared with other majors(such as Internet finance,digital media art,etc.),tourism service technology education emphasizes employment orientation and focus on cultivating students’ professional quality,practical ability and strain capacity.It determines that tourism English teaching in secondary vocational schools must explore a teaching model which is different from common English teaching model and form a new curriculum objectives mode of “three in one” of basic quality,vocational ability and post skills to improve the quality of talents training.According to the current situation of English pragmatic competence of students majoring in tourism management in secondary vocational schools,it is difficult to meet the tourism industry’s demand for high-quality foreign-related tourism talents.When providing foreign-related tourism services,many students often make pragmatic mistakes or even make fools of themselves because they know little about the speaking habits and pragmatic ways,which seriously affects the service quality and service level.In addition,although scholars have paid much attention to improving students’ English pragmatic competence in secondary vocational schools,the number of relevant research literature is limited and the depth of research needs to be strengthened.In this context,from the perspective of pragmatic competence,it is of great theoretical and practicalsignificance to explore the cultivation strategies of pragmatic competence of students majoring in tourism management in secondary vocational schools.It not only contributes to the deepening and expansion of relevant theoretical research,but also to the improvement of tourism practitioners’ foreign service ability and service quality in practice.Based on the analysis of basic theories of pragmatic competence and research results of its cultivation,this paper makes a comprehensive analysis of the current situation of pragmatic competence of students majoring in tourism management in secondary vocational schools and its causes by the methods of interview,classroom observation,literature analysis and case study and then discusses the cultivation of students’ English pragmatic competence.The specific contents are as follows:In terms of theoretical research,this paper focuses on the connotation,models,elements and research status of pragmatic competence based on relevant theories and research results.According to the research,although scholars have different definitions of pragmatic competence,they all emphasize that pragmatic competence refers to that language users have the ability to use language correctly in specific situations.Among the various pragmatic competence models,Hymes communicative competence model,Canale&Swain model,Bachman model and Leech model are the four most persuasive models.Generally speaking,pragmatic acting competence,pragmatic inference ability,pragmatic psychological ability,pragmatic cultural ability and pragmatic contextual ability are the basic elements of English pragmatic competence.The above analysis and discussion of the basic theory of pragmatic competence have laid solid theoretical foundation and conditions for the writing of this paper.In terms of investigation and analysis,the paper mainly adopts the method of interview and classroom observation to interview students and English teachers respectively,and knows the teaching method and the current situation of English pragmatic competence of students majoring in tourism management in secondary vocational schools and analyzes the survey results.The survey found that the studentsmainly have problems of weak awareness of pragmatic learning,poor pragmatic ability,low learning enthusiasm and narrow scope of knowledge.The main problems of teachers are low awareness of pragmatic teaching,weak pragmatic ability,limited knowledge expansion and outdated teaching method.The main problems in classroom teaching are unreasonable teaching design,prominent pragmatic errors and single teaching content.The formation of the above-mentioned problems,whether for students or teachers,has a certain negative impact on the improvement of quality of tourism talents training.In terms of countermeasure and suggestion,on the basis of the above-mentioned theoretical analysis and field investigation analysis,aiming at the existing problems,this paper explores some countermeasures and suggestions to improve the English pragmatic competence of students majoring in tourism management in secondary vocational schools from the perspectives of educational philosophy,teaching design,resource allocation and teacher team construction.It is believed that the English pragmatic competence of students majoring in tourism management in secondary vocational schools can be effectively improved by strengthening the awareness of“teaching and learning”,optimizing the design of English teaching,allocating teaching resource scientifically and strengthening the construction of teaching staff,thus it can improve students’ level of foreign-related service to meet the demand of tourism market for tourism talents.