§3.2.4.7 Some ways for motivating students ............................................. 18
§3.3 About teaching ................................................................................................. 20
§3.3.1 Three kinds of teacher ............................................................................20
§3.3.1.1 Teacher A: the explainer .............................................................. 20
§3.3.1.2 Teacher B: the involver ................................................................21
§3.3.1.3 Teacher C: the enabler ................................................................. 21
§3.3.2 Effective teachers ...................................................................................22
§3.3.3 Teachers’ roles and responsibilities ....................................................... 23
§3.3.3.1 The roles of teachers .................................................................... 23
§3.3.3.2 The responsibilities of teachers ....................................................24
§3.3.4 Teacher-student interaction .................................................................25
§3.3.4.1 Attitudes toward various students ............................................. 26
§3.3.4.2 Teacher-expectation effects ...................................................... 26
§3.3.5 Student-student interaction .................................................................... 27
Chapter 4 The Application of Pragmatics to the Act of Encouragement ........................ 29
§4.1 Speech act theory ............................................................................................. 29
§4.1.1 Three parts of a speech act .....................................................................29
§4.1.1.1 Locutionary act ......................................................................... 30
§4.1.1.2 Illocutionary act ........................................................................ 30
§4.1.1.3 Perlocutionary act ..................................................................... 30
§4.2 About context ................................................................................................30
§4.3 What are encouraging discourses? ...................................................................31
§4.3.1 Definition of encouraging discourses .................................................... 31
§4.3.2. Social, cultural and psychological backgrounds of encouraging
discourses .......................................................................................................... 31
§4.3.2.1 Social needs for encouraging discourses ..................................... 31
§4.3.2.2 Cultural needs for encouraging discourses .................................. 33
§4.3.2.3 Psychological needs for encouraging discourses .........................33
§4.3.3 Examples of encouraging discourses in classroom ................................34
§4.4 Microcosmic and macroscopic effects of encouraging discourses .................. 36
§4.5 The pragmatic analysis of the encouraging discourses ....................................37
§4.5.1 The constitution of an encouraging discourse ....................................... 37
§4.5.2 Contexts under which encouraging discourses happen ......................... 38