The role of authentic materials in enhancing EFL learners' speech act performance of requests the case of third year students, English department, University of Batna 2

Abstract EN

This study investigates the use of authentic materials as a pragmatic and semantic tool that exposes learners to the language in its natural context of use and function, and more precisely, it investigates the role of authentic materials in developing learners’ way of making requests, which is one of the most frequently used speech acts in the English language.

This study was conducted with the participation of 64 third year students, from the English department of Batna, University Mostefa Ben Boulaïd.

The treatment was applied on one group, in comparison to a control group, a pre-test and a post-test were administered and findings prove that authentic materials help develop learners’ way of performing requests in the target language.