پديد آورندگان :
oda, ala hussein , mahmoud, salam abbas
چكيده عربي :
Pragmatic competence is a crucial element of the communicative competence.This element is highly neglected in the ELT in Iraq in which most concentrationdrawn upon the organizational competence. This paper tries to investigate thechallenges as well as the opportunities for developing the pragmatic competencein Iraqi schools. The present study depends on one instrument, students test, ingathering data to find out the students pragmatic ability that they have alreadydeveloped in the course of their studying.The results of the testees responses showed that the pragmatic ability of thestudent is not that good since a lot of them have failed in the exam in general. Thesubjects were failed in the first two question which are concerned with testing thepragmalinguistic use of English and the situational pictures respectively. On theother, the testees succeeded in the third question which is concerned with givingspeech acts i.e. sentences , questions ,commands, etc. this success could beattributed to the concentration of teachers on asking the students to give examplesabout the taught rule.These results draw the attention to the importance of giving the pragmatic useof language much more attention and not to satisfy with teaching the structuralunits of the language.1.2 IntroductionIndeed, doing any communicative activities could not be achieved throughusing group of words bounded by grammatical rules, i.e. the linguisticcompetence, rather , there should be another knowledge about what kind of wordsshould be selected to be bounded by certain grammatical rule in which theseselections depend on sociolinguistic features like age , position , the medium, etc.i.e. pragmatic competence.A lot of the pragmatic ability is universal, i.e. known by any one regardlesstheir language. For example; using the direct way in request seems to be threatingthe face of the one that is requested in both Arabic and English as well as otherlanguages. Still, some of these pragmatic universals are not followed by someforeign language users since they did
كليدواژه :
, Developing Pragmatic Competence , EFL learners , Iraq
