Teaching Pragmatic Competence among Iraqi EFL Learners through Task-based Approach: The Mediating Roles of Teaching Context and Learners’ Gender | ||
| جستارهای زبانی | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 13 July 2025 | ||
| Document Type: مقالات علمی پژوهشی | ||
| DOI: 10.48311/LRR/lrr.2025.7278 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Reyasah Kareem Adhab Al-Lami1; Fatemeh Karimi* 1; Hamid Gittan Jewad Al-Chlaihawi2; Zargham Ghabanchi3 | ||
| 1Department of English, Isf.C., Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran | ||
| 2University of Kerbala, Department of English Language, College of Education for Humanities, Kerbala, Iraq | ||
| 3Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study aimed to explore the impact of pragmatics instruction on the perception and production of expressive and directive speech acts by Iraqi EFL learners. The study also sought to investigate the attitudes of both learners and teachers towards the use of task-based pragmatics instruction in both conventional face-to-face and technology-based classrooms. To achieve this goal, 120 Iraqi EFL learners took part in the study, divided into two experimental groups (conventional and technology-based classrooms) and one control group without pragmatics instruction. Data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively using statistical quantitative approaches for the former and content analysis for the latter. The results revealed that students who received instruction in speech acts, whether in conventional or online classrooms, performed better than those who did not receive any instruction in this area. Additionally, the findings supported the idea that online students outperformed their counterparts in conventional classrooms. Furthermore, the study found no significant gender differences in the speech act performance of Iraqi EFL learners. In the end, the benefits and challenges of task-based pragmatics instruction in online and conventional classrooms were discussed and implications were provided. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| EFL learner; Pragmatic competence; speech acts; task; Technology | ||
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