In an attempt to better understand whether Chinese college students today have essential English pragmalinguistic competence and sufficient meta-pragmalinguistic knowledge in daily communication, this study surveys the English pragmalinguistic competence of 80 Chinese college students, of whom 40 are English majors and 40 are non-English majors.

The components of linguistic knowledge include knowledge about grammar,pragmatics and metalinguistic knowledge.

But studies based on developmental psycho-linguistics, using experimental methods to investigate how children understand promisingand how their metapragmatic knowledge increases; are really rare.

Everybody has a language system, an individual "bank of active language knowledge", which contains a variety of types of writing.

An Investigation and Research on Chinese Language Knowledge of a 9-year-old Child;

The Language Knowledge Investigation of a Four-year-old Child;

In view of the problems universally existing in Vocational College English teaching,the paper analyses the relation between language knowledge and communicative ability,and,by discovering the weak points in the English teaching,proposes a new model for the improvement of the teaching method.

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that there are areas of linguistic knowledge which we have tended to neglect or even omit from our teaching in the intermediate and advanced reading comprehension class.

Based on this idea,teachers should give adequate thought to the strategies used in improving students pragmatic competence and encourage students to enrich their linguistic knowledge in order to improve their pragmatic competence.

The article analyzes the existing problems with English teaching at higher vocational colleges,points out that it s necessary to combine the linguistic knowledge with cultural background properly in the teaching so as to enhance the students ability of intercultural communication.