Working with Formulaic Language as a Way to Evaluate and Improve EFL Non-linguistics Students’ Pragmatic Skills in a Culture-specific Contextual Situation

The present article considers the learners’ ability to understand and use formulaic language as an indicator of their pragmatic skills. Experimental data has been collected and analyzed to identify the current level of the learners’ pragmatic skills and to reveal problems they face in culture-specific communicative situations. Classroom activities for developing pragmatic skills have been suggested.