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Iraqi EFL Learners' Ability in Using Congratulations | ||
| Journal of College of Education for Pure Science | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 40-64 | ||
| Author | ||
| Hawraa Hassan Oraiby | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Human beings living in a community interact with each other everyday, and friction becomes inevitable. In order to reduce friction and maintain peace and social harmony, each society has developed certain sets of rules.Lakoff1calls such rules 'politeness rules' (Watts,Richard :2004:61). Politeness then is the lubricant that helps people achieve verbal communication more smoothly. Congratulation is, in fact, part of the positive politeness strategies The fundamental goals behind the present study are to evaluate the fourth year subjects' at College of Education University of Thi-qar mastery of the speech act of congratulation, and their ability to use its grammatical structures and forms. And to know whether they are able to produce the proper form of congratulation. In addition, the test attempts to examine how far these subjects are capable of recognizing and producing congratulation. It is hypothesized that the fourth year students at College of Education University of Thi-qar do not adequately master the reorganizing and producing of the speech act of congratulation. The second hypothesis is that females are more proficient than males in their responses, and the third one, is that males and females tend to use particular types of linguistic forms rather than others in expressing congratulation. To achieve the aims of this paper and verify the validity of its hypotheses, a test is designed of two parts (recognition and production). After applying the test, its results show that the three hypotheses are confirmed and yielded the following main results: first, the subjects lack the ability to recognize and produce congratulation, but their performance is better at recognition congratulation than producing it. Second, the females are better than males in both sides of the test. And finally, the subjects tend to use certain formulaic expressive congratulation such as "congratulations!", "well done!", "bravo" to express their joy rather than use grammatical structures. ا | ||
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