This study investigated the effects of different output-based task repetition conditions on EFL learners’ speech act production. Three intact classes of English-major students constituted three instructional groups: (1) the explicit task-repetition (ETR) group, (2) the implicit task-repetition (ITR) group, and (3) the no-input task repetition (NTR) group. All the three groups engaged in t...

In the framework of this study, phenomenon transfer is probed pragma-linguistically and socio-linguistically concerning marriage situations among Iraqi EFL learners. The study also strives to look at refusal strategies most commonly employed by female English as a foreign Language (EFL) learners compared their counterparts, American native speakers English. involved 70 participants who answered...

In single utterance understanding, which does not include discourse understanding, the concept error rate (CER), or the keyword error rate, has been widely used as an evaluation measure for utterance understanding. However, the CER cannot be used for evaluating systems that understand user utterances based on previous user utterances. In this paper, we propose a method for evaluating incrementa...

It is hard to select and produce appropriate semantic formulas of apologizing for paying off violation social norms restore harmony. seems that it even harder realize such processes selection production in a non-native language. The study three folds; namely, examines the realization apology strategies by students senior Boarding School Arabic English as language, effects on contextual factors ...

Speech acts composes a big part of language; it is one the bases pragmatics, can be defined as use language to make things happen in world. The aim study investigate strategies speech act criticism Kurdish. One hundred twenty undergraduate native Kurdish speaking students were selected sample for study. different majors, sexes and social classes. Discourse Completion Test (DCT) approach adopted...

This is a pragmatic study to investigate the communicative behavior of Egyptian Arabic Speakers (EASs) in act complaining. The participants consist 50 (EASs). They are requested complete Discourse Completion Test (DCT) involving six complaint-inducing scenarios. Trosborg's taxonomy complaint strategies (1995) used for classifying data, with three additional presented Yian's (2008) research. Tha...

The purpose of this study is to find a practical solution for improving writing skill among Iranian high school learners of EFL. The main question was whether pragmatics had any priority over traditional methods in improving writing or not.  Forty high school students were selected on the basis of their performance in PET (2009). In addition the following instruments were also used in this quas...