Nowadays, the need of college students' pragmatic competence has shown a diversified trend with the development of society. English Language Teaching is to develop students' capability in pragmatics. Teaching reform keeps deepening and the quality of teaching continuously get improved for meeting the enhancing the comprehensive demands of our nation and society for personnel training application ability of college students. Pragmatic competence belongs to the communicative ability. From this thesis, the significance of competence of pragmatics in ELT classroom will be in a consistent discussio...