خلاصة:
The present study is an attempt to compare the use of different forms of greeting speech acts presented in Iranian junior high school textbooks, i.e. Prospect series (I, II, III) and Four Corners series (1, 2, 3 and 4) which are quite popular in Iranian high schools and institutions. To this end, greeting forms in the language function and conversation sections of these two series were analyzed to see how they were presented on the basis of a modified version of Searle’s (1967) greeting speech act classification introduced by Hang (2010). The obtained results indicated that ‘greeting by using questions’ was the most frequent form of all greeting forms in both series. In addition, the results of chi-square revealed that there was no significant difference between the occurrence frequencies of greeting forms of speech act in the two series. The findings of the study have some implications for textbook designers in terms of incorporation of speech acts in upcoming textbooks.
ملخص الجهاز:
Greeting Speech Act Forms in Iranian Junior High School Textbooks: Prospect Series vs Four Corners Series Neda Sanie, M.
com Abstract The present study is an attempt to compare the use of different forms of greeting speech acts presented in Iranian junior high school textbooks, i.
To this end, greeting forms in the language function and conversation sections of these two series were analyzed to see how they were presented on the basis of a modified version of Searle’s (1967) greeting speech act classification introduced by Hang (2010).
Keywords: Greeting Speech Act, Hang’s classification of speech aActs, communicative competence, textbook evaluation Introduction Since English has become the lingua franca for global communication, communicative competence in English has become an essential skill in the 21th Century which implies that Foreign and Second Language Learners (henceforth, FLL and SLL) need to be able to use English fluently to fit international communication (Poolsawad et al.
Based on what was stated above, the present study has focused on the forms of speech acts used in Prospect and Four Corners series, taught in Iranian English language institutes and high schools, in order to make a comparison between the two and to make sure of the presence of appropriate materials for the students in this respect.
To answer the first and second research questions, frequencies and percentages of greeting acts were calculated in the language function parts of junior high school textbooks and conversation parts of each unit of Four Corners series based on the model of the study.