随着素质化教育进程的不断深入,初中英语课程也开始积极引入素质化教育的理念,将培养学生的语用能力作为主要的教学目标。提高学生的语用能力能够有效丰富学生的英语知识,锻炼学生的语言交流能力,为学生日后的英语学习打下扎实的基础。本文对语用能力的含义、初中英语教学中培养语用能力存在的问题进行了分析,并提出了相关对策。 With the deepening of the process of quality education, junior high school English curriculum has also begun to actively introduce the concept of quality education, and cultivate students’ pragmatic competence as the main teaching goal. Improving students’ pragmatic competence can effectively enrich students’ knowledge of English, develop students’ ability of language communication, and lay a solid foundation for their future English learning. This paper analyzes the meaning of pragmatic competence, the problems in cultivating pragmatic competence in junior high school English teaching and puts forward some countermeasures.