The Importance of the Request Strategies in the Iraqi EFL Classroom

Nadhim Obaid Hussein,Intan Safinas Mohd Ariff Albakri

doi:10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.2p.8

Abstract

This paper explained English students’ pragmatics development, students’ pragmatics competence in chosen speech acts, request strategies that they used in gaining pragmatic ability. The paper was presented by a public syllabus lead that prioritizes the need for English learners to improve their ability to utilize request strategies successfully in academic and social communications. The study aimed to explain the significance of request strategies on developing EFL learners’ usage of the request in the classroom. Additionally, Many English learners fail to present pragmatic ability on how to understand request strategies by relating utterances to their meanings, knowing the intention of language users, and how request strategies are utilized in specific settings. There is growing material of researches on awareness-raising of the value of pragmatic competence and request strategies for EFL schoolroom teaching. However, researchers have pointed to concentrate on the traditional approaches rather than how English learners require or understand request strategies to develop the learners’ production of the request in the EFL schoolroom. Therefore, depending on the successful findings of previous studies, the study focused on the importance of strategies on developing students’ usage of the request. The request strategies and approaches of teaching English to these Iraqi students have been discussed in details of the current paper.

Highlights

Today, the mastering of a foreign language is a great challenge for an English learner and for an English instructor in EFL environments
Empirical research by Bataineh and Hussein (2015) indicated that pragmatic doesn’t focus on grammatical knowledge, but it focuses on the meaning of learners’ language use in the acts of communication in EFL classroom. Results of those studies provided rich evidence to support the necessity for EFL students’ pragmatic aspects to develop speech acts and improve the act of communication in the FL classroom, yet further researches need to be conducted in diverse contexts, with numerous models to gain a deeper understanding of how students can cultivate such competency successfully in their classroom
This study has addressed the importance of request strategies in a new field of EFL, as well as its explanations and characteristics

Summary

Introduction

The mastering of a foreign language is a great challenge for an English learner and for an English instructor in EFL environments. This may help foreign students become more pragmatically and culturally aware of their own utterances, and provide insight into language teachers in order to develop EFL learners’ pragmatic competence in EFL environment. Results of different studies (Ellis, 1992; Hill, 1997; Jalilifar, 2009) that focused on the importance of request strategies on developing English students’ ability to use request in diverse cultures.

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