Abstract
The present study sheds some light on the conversation as an optimal form of communication. Also, it tries to illustrate Iraqi EFL learners’ aptitude for producing conversation and specifying the errors types committed by them in its progression. To accomplish these purposes, it is hypothesized that the learners may face formidable problems in sharing their experiences with each other and are unable to keep a conversation going. In the face of such problems, a sample of (50) learners is selected to a diagnostic test administration. The subjects are at the Fourth year, Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, University of Babylon. Data analysis has proved that the leaners encounter more difficulty on the production level than the recognition one. This manifestation is manifested itself in the number of the learners’ correct responses as compared with their incorrect ones on both levels.
Highlights
Individuals generally need to interact with each other in real-life situations, and that process of interaction often takes the form of conversation
The estimation of the reliability of the test has been carried out using a Kuder-Richards Formula: R = N / N-1 [m (N-m) / NX2], where R typifies reliability, N typifies how many items in the test, m typifies the mean scores of the test, and X typifies the test standard deviation of the scores
The most obvious findings to emerge from this study is that: the overall level of the learners’ correct responses in the whole test, (65.8%), is higher than their level of the incorrect one (34.2%), and that is a real sign of their skillfulness in engaging a conversation
Summary
Individuals generally need to interact with each other in real-life situations, and that process of interaction often takes the form of conversation. It is a universal human activity which may uncover something important and necessary for the human experience. In all communities and includes every single social class of people. The problem the current study treats is that the learners of Iraqi EFL may not be able to converse in a conversation. In other words, they may communicate their wants and needs ineffectively. It is hard for them to sustain conversations in a situation where they are
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