Using Humour to Develop FIrst-year Students’ Pragmatic Competence: System of Activities

The article explores the use of humour to develop fi rst-year students pragmatic competence who major in Foreign Language and Literature at local Higher Educational Institutions and suggests an innovative method using a system of activities comprising formative, analytical, and creative types. Formative activities shape the theoretical knowledge of students, analytical activities help to deconstruct knowledge and internalize it and creative activities encourage students to use the received pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic knowledge in different contexts. In all types of activities humour plays the role of a pedagogical tool or teachers can use it as material.

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