This paper is to have a discussion,respectively,on the causes of pragmatic failure and on the resolutions to it in English teaching,in the hope of promoting people’s awareness to this language phenomenon and of finding effective ways to reduce its happening. This paper is to have a discussion, respectively, on the causes of pragmatic failure and on the resolutions to it in English teaching, in the hope of promoting people’s awareness to this language phenomenon and of finding effective ways to reduce its happening.