“It’s of no value compared to your value”
Developing EFL learners’ metapragmatic awareness of complimenting
In the present study, we attempt to develop EFL learners’ metapragmatic awareness of English compliments, which still remains an under-researched issue. Initially, we conducted a cross-sectional survey with intermediate-level Iranian EFL learners, Persian and British English native speakers. Although the analysis of the language learners’ realization of compliments and responses to compliments seemed to indicate that their pragmatic development was overall adequate, it also suggested the influence of the native socio-pragmatic schema on their pragmatic performance. We therefore undertook a pragmatic instruction aimed at developing the EFL learners’ metapragmatic awareness of complimenting. The results suggested that through discussion, analysis, small-scale research, and reflections on the native and target pragmalinguistic and socio-pragmatic complimenting conventions the learners were developing metapragmatic awareness. Finally, we make recommendations for more effective pragmatic teaching in EFL contexts.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Literature review
- 3.Method
- 3.1Participants
- 3.2Data collection
- 3.3Data analysis
- 4.Results
- 4.1Compliments
- 4.2Compliment responses
- 4.3Metapragmatic development
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
-
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