Authentic Materials to Develop Pragmatic Competence in EFL Classrooms: The Case of Boumerdes and Algiers’ EFL University Teachers and Students
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Date
2020
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UNIVERSITE MOULOUD MAMMERI TIZI-OUZOU
Abstract
This dissertation is concerned with authentic materials (AM) to develop pragmatic competence
in EFL classrooms. It aims at investigating whether EFL teachers use AM to develop their EFL
students’ pragmatic competence and examining the teachers and students’ views about the
effectiveness of authentic materials in the development of students’ pragmatic competence in
EFL classroom. In conducting this research, we have adopted the Speech Act Theory developed
by Austin (1962) and Searle (1969) in order to achieve the aforementioned objectives. In
collecting the data, we have adopted the mixed method approach. Both quantitative and
qualitative methods are used for the collection and analysis of the data. In order to obtain the
needed information two questionnaires are sent to both EFL teachers and students to obtain
quantitative and qualitative data. Moreover, thirty EFL teachers and sixty EFL students have
been chosen randomly from two different Algerian universities (Boumerdes and Algiers
Universities). The teachers’ questionnaire aims at investigating whether EFL teachers use
authentic materials to develop their students’ pragmatic competence in classroom and
teachers’ views about the effectiveness of these materials. The students’ questionnaire aims at
investigating students’ views about the effectiveness of AM in developing their pragmatic
competence in EFL classroom. The results obtained from the two questionnaires show that EFL
teachers use authentic materials in classroom and that authentic material are effective in
developing EFL students’ pragmatic competence
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30cm.; 59p.; tabl.+cd
Keywords
Authentic materials, pragmatic competence, EFL classroom, speech act theory.
Citation
Didactics of Foreign Languages