A Study of Pragmatics Applied to Teacher – Parent Communication

Abstract

With progress society and increased information, parents cloud participate their children's learning become easier. And parents’ educational backgrounds are increasing, so they have more and more different opinions on the method of disciplining their children by teacher in school. It is pressing that try to create a efficacious approach of teacher – parents (abbr. as T - P)communication, and how to cause parents participate their children's learning more willing, and how to cause parents interactive with teacher more active is a important question. This study researched the theory of the pragmatics and speech act theory, classified the dialogue between teacher and parents, used the method of association rules in data mining, tried to find a active module of T - P communication, to use helpful in general teaching placement, provide teacher to increase parents participate their children's learning. In this study, we found out 28 rules of association rules from the T - P dialogue on the student homebook in the last year, and checked these rules by the new T - P dialogue in this year. We found the precision form 40% to 100%, and the recall from 4.35% to 69.57%. The result shows the association rules is in line with the different T - P communication, it can be provided to teacher as reference. We proved if the association rules were true, teachers were not soliloquizing any more, and parents reply willing, T - P communication was frequently.