Authenticity of the speech acts in coursebooks: A study on requests and refusals

To communicate appropriately with native speakers to maintain communicative tasks like ordering food or refusing do a favor without any misunderstandings, learners need acquire the sociocultural features of target language (TL) pragmatic units speech acts. One source input providing these TL is coursebooks they use in classrooms. This study’s goal was explore strategy types and authenticity acts second (L2) Turkish coursebooks. achieve this, request refusal strategies dialogues three B2 level L2 were identified classified based on type through content analysis. Following that, coursebook questionnaire including conducted 50 asking them rate how natural sound natural. Results showed that investigated reflect direct indirect depending politeness variables power social distance relationship between interlocutors. It indicated by results while requests refusals natural, not totally meaning there still something unnatural utterances. Limitations suggestions are discussed article.