The pragmatic factor affecting speech intelligibility of EFL Iraqi learners of English

الملخص EN

Linguists and specialists in the field of linguistics do assume that the knowledge of language is the base for learners in order to use it in different communicative tasks.

This ,however, is not proved true all the time due to the fact that some learners have a sufficient knowledge about language, but they fail their tasks in communication.

Consequently and to achieve reasonable understanding, intelligibility represents a vital point of consideration for English foreign language methodologists.

What is noticed in this respect is that the Iraqi advanced learners do seriously undergo the serious problem of misunderstanding the communicative situation when they are involved in certain a communicative task with the native speakers of English.

Thus, the present study emerges under the shade of such a phenomenon .

Accordingly, it enables the researcher to obtain an insight into the learners′ abilities and points of weakness in the speech intelligibility with the native speakers of English, since that the intelligibility of oral language represents one of the ultimate goals of learning foreign language.