Abstract
Presently, the control to master the English language has become prominent in academia, research and commercial attention. Therefore, many non-English speaking countries, including Arab countries such as Iraq, are striving to develop their education systems in teaching pragmatic aspects as speech act of request in classroom, and speech act of request is an essential aspect to boost English communication among Arab learners. Furthermore, in Arab countries as in Iraq, there is a lack of usage of speech act of request among students of English as a foreign language which affects the learning process of students. As such, teaching pragmatic aspect, particularly teaching speech act of requests, are emerging as the best way to create enthusiasm in learning new languages. Therefore, the paper was presented by a public syllabus lead that prioritizes the need for English learners to improve their ability to utilize speech act of request positively in social and cultural communications. Moreover, Many English learners fail to present pragmatic ability on how to understand speech act of request by relating utterances to their meanings, knowing the intention of language users, and how speech act of request is utilized in definite contexts. There is growing material of researches on usage of speech act of request for EFL schoolroom teaching. However, researchers have pointed to concentrate on the traditional approaches rather than how English learners require or understand how make speech act of request for developing the students' production of request in the EFL schoolroom. The usage of speech act of request and methods of teaching English to these Iraqi learners have been discussed in details of the current paper. Keywords: Usage of Speech Act of Request, Iraqi Learners’ Problems. DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-4-07
Highlights
The teaching of English language is continuously affected by social and cultural influences
It was found that EFL learners in a college in Iraq seem to sometimes lack pragmatic aspects such as speech act of request when trying to speak in English, which is their foreign language
Most of Iraqi EFL learner face problems when they want to communicate with individuals that is because they lack pragmatic aspects namely, speech act of request (Mohammed, 2012)
Summary
The teaching of English language is continuously affected by social and cultural influences. Most learners spend their time on memorizing of vocabularies and language rules in order to pass the examination without learning pragmatic aspects such as speech act of request. It was found that EFL learners in a college in Iraq seem to sometimes lack pragmatic aspects such as speech act of request when trying to speak in English, which is their foreign language.
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