An Investigation of Teachers’ Attitude towards developing Kurdish EFL University Students’ Sociopragmatic Competence

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ID22216848
AuthorsAfifa Ahmad Jamil (University of Kurdistan), Ayad Hameed Mahmood (University of Diyala)
Year2023
Volume6
Issue3, 2
Pages118-131
Publication date2023-05-15
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2616-6224 • E-ISSN: 2663-9033
PublisherTikrit University (PUBLISHER • IQ)
DOI10.25130/jls.6.3.2.9
OpenAlexW4388738279
LanguageEN
References cited3

This research aims at finding out the attitude of teachers toward developing Kurdish EFL university students’ verbal and non-verbal sociopragmatic competence, and the problems of developing this sort of competence that are mainly cultural problems. The sample of the study consists of fifty EFL instructors, who have experienced in teaching speaking, conversation, communication, and cross-cultural communication at the colleges of education and basic education at six universities: Sulaimani, Salahaddin -Erbil, Duhok, Halabja, Charmo and Garmian Universities A quantitative method has been adopted for this study and the data have been collected through using a survey questionnaire. The findings of the research reveal that teachers regarded sociopragmatic competence as an essential part of teaching in EFL classes. The findings also show that teachers agree that the problems of developing sociopragmatic elements relate to the fact that students lack cultural knowledge and they are unable to identify cultural similarities and differences between Kurdish and English

Communicative competence · Conversation · Cultural competence · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · sort · Communication · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social Psychology

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