The present investigation was designed to study the production and comprehension of specific means for information highlighted by advanced Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language. The study focused on the discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, pre-posing, it- and Wh-clefts. After taking the Nelson test, a homogeneous group was settled. ...

the process of globalization entails the acquisition of a construct, cultural intelligence, with which efl students can function appropriately in intercultural situations. this study was, first, intended to find the relationship between cultural intelligence and the use of expressions of gratitude by iranian efl learners. second, it sought to determine whether there were any significant differe...

The aim of this study is to investigate the speech act persuasion used by Saudis learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Moreover, I seek explore differences between genders in use these strategies. participants are 50 males and females at level 7 their bachelor’s degree English. Data collected using Discourse Completion Test (DCT) method, which contains six scenarios similar real-life si...

Pragmatic competence is an indispensable component of communicative competence, which plays essential role in human communication. When individual communicatively competent, he/she can carry out effective conversation social situations. Therefore, pragmatic establishes a compelling factor English language learning as it permits second/foreign learners to successful conversations real-life inter...

Grounded in sociocultural theory, collaboration has been recognized as a useful teaching method. In English teaching, while number of studies have examined the effectiveness on grammar, research pragmatic awareness is scarce. As such, this study explored how influenced, firstly, grammatical and and, secondly, error correction: two major components language competence. study, 32 Taiwanese junior...

Complaint commonly appears in daily life interaction (Sukyadi, 2011). People do not only provide words when they speak up but also deliver an action. The way how complain is sometimes different. Hence, the study described this article aimed to investigate types of complaining strategies produced by EFL learners English Study Program at Universitas Riau. research was conducted Pekanbaru. Researc...

background considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (tbi) should face difficulties in this task. therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from tbi. among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...

The present study, on the one hand, attempted to investigate the strategies applied in dispreferred responses by Iranian university students of English and the extent to which pragmatic transfer could occur.  On the other hand, the study aimed to probe into the association between dispreferred organization and turn-shape. To this end, 31 relevant naturally occurring conversations, totaling 120 ...

Communicative competence has been the goal teaching of a second or foreign language. In acquiring language, speakers language also acquire rules knowledge and choose speech acts when communicating with others. This study aimed to investigate act request strategies perspectives produced by student The International Institute Tourism Business Denpasar. There are fifty students’ involved in interm...