Pragmatic competence of complimenting among female omani EFL college students : a sociolinguistic study
Other Title(s)
الكفاءة البراجماتية لأسلوب المجاملات الخطابي لدى طالبات الكليات العمانيات المتخصصات في اللغة الإنجليزية : دراسة لغوية اجتماعية
Joint Authors
al-Mahruqi, Rahmah
al-Aghbari, Khalsah
Thakur, Vijay Singh
Source
Journal of Arts and Social Sciences
Issue
Vol. 13, Issue 2 (30 Apr. 2022), pp.3-15, 13 p.
Publisher
Sultan Qaboos University College of Arts and Social Sciences
Publication Date
2022-04-30
Country of Publication
Oman
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The importance of pragmatic competence in language teaching and learning has been highlighted in many studies; however, scarcity of such studies in the Omani context can be easily identified.
The study investigates how female Omani higher education students express compliments in English and whether these are pragmatically, linguistically and communicatively appropriate.
The research data were collected from 51 female college students through a response-based questionnaire containing 18 social scenarios to test their responses on the linguistic accuracy and pragmatic appropriateness of compliments.
Native speaker’s ratings on these revealed that 61.02% of students’ responses were linguistically deficient and 23.96% pragmatically incompetent.
It was found that many students used linguistic and pragmatic considerations of complimenting from their mother tongue while communicating in English which resulted in infelicitous or defective performance of the speech act under examination.
This entails an urgent need to integrate pragmatic and cultural knowledge into EFL skills courses in Oman, especially those that focus on speaking, in order to raise students’ awareness of what is considered appropriate and acceptable in English and avoid serious cross-cultural errors in inter-language communication.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Mahruqi, Rahmah& al-Aghbari, Khalsah& Thakur, Vijay Singh. 2022. Pragmatic competence of complimenting among female omani EFL college students : a sociolinguistic study. Journal of Arts and Social Sciences،Vol. 13, no. 2, pp.3-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1429210
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Mahruqi, Rahmah…[et al.]. Pragmatic competence of complimenting among female omani EFL college students : a sociolinguistic study. Journal of Arts and Social Sciences Vol. 13, no. 2 (Apr. 2022), pp.3-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1429210
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Mahruqi, Rahmah& al-Aghbari, Khalsah& Thakur, Vijay Singh. Pragmatic competence of complimenting among female omani EFL college students : a sociolinguistic study. Journal of Arts and Social Sciences. 2022. Vol. 13, no. 2, pp.3-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1429210
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 14-15
Record ID
BIM-1429210