The effects of pragmatic instruction on Iraqi undergraduate English as a foreign language students usage of the speech act of request
<p>The study aimed to investigate whether pragmatic instruction has an effect on Iraqi</p><p>students' usage of request and whether male and female students differ in their usage of</p><p>overall strategy and strategy pattern...
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| Format: | thesis |
| Language: | eng |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://ir.upsi.edu.my/detailsg.php?det=7413 |
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| Summary: | <p>The study aimed to investigate whether pragmatic instruction has an effect on Iraqi</p><p>students' usage of request and whether male and female students differ in their usage of</p><p>overall strategy and strategy patterns. This study also explored Iraqi EFL learners'</p><p>perceptions of learning speech act of request and investigate whether Iraqi students</p><p>were able to present the appropriate linguistic and pragmatic forms in performing</p><p>speech act of request. Experimental design was adopted in this study. A discourse</p><p>completion test (DCT) and a questionnaire were used for data collection. 80</p><p>undergraduate students participated in the study and they were divided into two groups;</p><p>the control group consisted of 40 learners who did not receive any pragmatic</p><p>instruction, and the experimental group that composed of 40 learners who were taught</p><p>request strategies via pragmatic instruction. The results revealed that the experimental</p><p>group showed a significant improvement in the scores of four components; speech act,</p><p>information, expression, and politeness compared to the control group. The</p><p>experiemntal group also achieved better results in the post-test than the control group.</p><p>The results showed that the female students scored better in three conventional indirect</p><p>request strategies forms; willingness, ability, and permission, than the male students.</p><p>Moreover, the students in the experimental group reported a positive perception</p><p>towards learning the speech act of request. Finally, the results proved the experimental</p><p>group was able to present the appropriate linguistic (sociopragmatics) and pragmatic</p><p>(pragmalinguistics) forms in performing the speech act of request. The findings indicate</p><p>that the pragmatic instruction was effective in helping learners obtain different forms</p><p>of request and strategies that enabled them to formulate appropriate requests. The study</p><p>implicates that teaching pragmatics in the Iraqi EFL context should be implemented by</p><p>EFL teachers to develop EFL learners pragmatic knowledge and enhance their</p><p>communicative ability in social contexts.</p> |
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