Teaching Design of Senior High School English Writing Based on Pragmatics Theory

Abstract

This paper first overviews the pragmatic theory and mainly introduces Grice’s Conversational Cooperative Principle and Leech’s Politeness Principle. Then, the application situations of the Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle in English teaching at home and abroad are reviewed. Finally, through analyzing the relevance of the Cooperative Principle, Politeness Principle and English writing teaching in senior high school, taking Unit 1 “Teenage Life”, the first volume of compulsory English for senior high school in the People’s Education Press (2019 edition), as an example, this paper presents a reading and writing teaching design that integrates pragmatics theory with English writing teaching in senior high school.