Furthermore, to increase students awareness of pragmatic competence teachers could compare and contrast between the two cultures. Students would be better expose to situations where it is totally different from the other culture. For instance, imagine two students one is middle eastern and the other is from America and they meet accidently at a clinic center. The American man wants to start a conversation so he pays a compliment to the middle eastern man's watch saying your watch looks nice. In this case, the middle eastern guy would apply his background pragmatic competence and he would offer him his watch by saying you can take it. In middle eastern culture it is common to offer what has been paid a compliment for or you might be considered
