خلاصة:
This study investigated the effectiveness of colligational corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The objective of the study was to find out whether or not providing students with corpora through using colligational instruction had any significant effects on enhancing their pragmalinguistic knowledge and, hence, speech act learning. Sixty participants from several institutes in Mazandaran Province, Iran, participated in the study. They were all intermediate- level students, and were divided into two homogeneous groups (30 each) of experimental and control groups based on the OPT results. A multiple discourse completion test was then administered to both groups as the pretest to measure their ability and knowledge in using the speech act of request. Subsequently, the treatment started where the experimental group received corpus-based instruction through colligational practices, while the control group practiced learning the same speech act through traditional or common methods of learning speech acts (i.e., using textbooks, audios, and videos). After 15 sessions of training, a posttest of multiple discourse completion test was administered. The data were analyzed using paired- and independent-samples t tests. In order to increase the validity of the results, the researchers observed and interviewed all the participants, too. The results that learning of the speech act of request improved significantly better through corpus-based instruction vis-à-vis traditional method of teaching colligations.
ملخص الجهاز:
The Effect of Colligational Corpus-based Instruction on Enhancing the Pragmalinguistic Knowledge of Request Speech Act among Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners Batoul Sabzalipour*, Ph. D.
com Abstract This study investigated the effectiveness of colligational corpus-based instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners.
The objective of the study was to find out whether or not providing students with corpora through using colligational instruction had any significant effects on enhancing their pragmalinguistic knowledge and, hence, speech act learning.
The present study was intended to investigate whether or not using on-line corpora and practicing pragmalinguistic aspects of speech act of request through corpus-based colligations, as an alternative to the traditional teaching approaches, can solve the problems concerning learning this speech act.
Does colligational corpus-based instruction have any significant effect on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of the speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners?
The present study thus tried to investigate the effects of corpus-based instruction of colligations on learning the speech act of request by Iranian intermediate EFL learners.
Based on the literature review on pragmatics and corpus- based language learning, as well as the proposed methodology, the formulated research question was: Do colligational on-line corpora have any significant effects on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners?
Conclusion This paper presented the effective results of using colligational corpus-based instruction in enhancing pragmalinguistics knowledge of speech act of request among Iranian intermediate EFL learners.