A Study Of Chinese Pragmatic Failure Of L2 Learners From Korea And Classroom Instruction

Cross-cultural communication is an exciting experience; successful communication not only make people have spiritual happiness and material benefits, but also allows people to appreciate others culture. However, we often encounter some unsuccessful communication in process. Though the speaker does not violate the language rules, but native speakers will feel a little awkward and inappropriate. This is involving a pragmatic problem. After all, Koreans and Chinese have two different linguistic and cultural backgrounds of people interaction, different cultural psychology and communication statute often collide and resulting in cultural conflicts and communication barriers, resulting in communication failures, leading into very embarrassed unpleasant situation between the two sides, and cannot achieve the expected results.Speech act research belong to pragmatics areas,"request","reject"and"apology"are commonly used in the basic speech act but the essential have elements to threat the decent, so the content of research is very important.This study using questionnaire, analyze Korean students in using"request","reject","apology"speech act. the study results indicate that: due to variety factors, when using"request","reject","apology"Korean students, almost regardless interpersonal relationships, social distance and the event, inaccurately use them, lack of decent, inconsistent and unnatural.This article aims to put forward the necessity and urgency of dealing with cross-cultural communication problems by pragmatic failures and propose solutions. By this, the public aware of this issue and can find the exact starting point. Intend to explore the Korean failures issue when learning Chinese and deducing the causes put forward some useful suggestion for foreign language teaching and practical impact.