Pragmatics in my everyday practice - Meeting and addressing people

Meeting and addressing people

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, University of Debrecen (Institution of English and American Studies ), course: essay, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This short piece of work would intend to show or present my everyday teaching practice from pragmatic points of view. I learned applied linguistics before, or at least my college professors gave it a try to teach me. I always wondered this miraculous linguistics, even if I had found it very hard to master. I am now making a research work on the linguistic differences between American and British English, hence I have been in love with US English since my childhood. Therefore, as my being a language examiner at one of the language examination boards, I am not only collecting pragmatic hints from my teaching practice, but I also would like to show some interesting points form the language exams. Moreover, I would really love to present some dialectical differences, which do inevitably utter pragmatics. For all this I have got to admit that an essay of some short pages could not fulfill the task to present every small bit of pragmatics, heedless of my honest efforts.

Short summary Teaching position: high school teacher, lecturer at Karoli Gaspar University Department of English Studies lawyer position: teacher of Health Care Law at National Health Education Center, advisor. medical position: paramedic on duty at the Charity Ambulance Dabas Longer description (by Linkedin) Janos Talaber earned his first BA degree in Theology in 1998. Following this, he graduated as a teacher of English Language (BA). Meanwhile he started to study law, especially church law, and some years after, he earned an academic degree in Church Law (JCD, PhD) and an MA in English-American Philology and Pedagogy. He has a special MA degree in Pedagogy. Also, he was trained as a Paramedic in Hungary and in the USA. He spent some academic time in the USA, in Germany and in the UK. He has visited many other countries so far. Previously, he taught medical ethics at Semmelweis Medical University and legal as well as business English at two colleges. His current activities involve teaching at a provincial high school as well as being the Head Examiner at A-Level Final Examination Board. Parallel to this, he issues several publications on medical law and church law, American Linguistics (Pedagogy) and Philosophy. Currently, he is carrying out a research on American linguistics for a PhD program and his current research aims at the neurobiological factors in teaching English as well as the situational aphasia during the oral language exams. He is also an advisor in medical law. As a devoted paramedic, he still works for the charity ambulance part-time, of which he is one of the owners. He lives in Hungary with his wife and two kids. Their pass-time activities involve hiking, playing the piano and the organ, traveling, fishing and helping out in the local parish.