Strategies followed by Iraqi EFL learners in recognizing the illocutionary act of invitation
| Autor: | Noor Qasim Kareem, Nadia Majeed Hussein, Abbas Lutfi Hussein |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | International journal of health sciences. :7225-7235 |
| ISSN: | 2550-696X 2550-6978 |
| DOI: | 10.53730/ijhs.v6ns2.6705 |
| Popis: | Invitations are social activities that usually occur among individuals (and particularly among friends) in everyday life, utilized to keep rapport, to increase social solidarity and to maintain good relationships among people. However, people use various types of pragmatic and linguistic strategies to recognize invitations. Thus, this paper aims to detect Iraqi University students’ ability to recognize and to distinguish invitation from other related speech acts. Fifty Iraqi EFL 4th year students of the University of Misan, have been administered to a recognition text. Responses to the test have been collected and analyzed. The paper reveals that most Iraqi EFL 4th students have the ability to identify the speech act of invitation, while other students resort to the use of offer, questioning, advice… etc. strategies rather than invitation. They take one strategy instead of another since their pragmatic knowledge about invitation and situations involving invitation is not precise. This students’ failure is due to the fact that they lack knowledge of the employment of the strategies utilized for recognizing invitation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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