The paper is a simple review on the book A Study On Chinese EFL Learners’ Pragmatic Failure in Verbal Communication(Pragmatic Failure for short)

and also a deep reflection on the application of the book in the author’s study and work. The author finds very helpful many points of knowledge

i.e. Long’s PSSA

in the book and finally hopes this short paper will be able to bring readers some implications and enlightenments.