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040			_aCY-NiCIU _beng _cCY-NiCIU _erda
041			_aeng
090			_aD 289 _bB27 2022
100	1		_aBarzani, Sami Hussein
245	1	0	_aPRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION OF IMPLICATURES BY NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH / _cSAMI HUSSEIN HAKEEM BARZANI; SUPERVISOR: ASSOC. PROF. DR. BEHBOOD MOHAMMADZADEH
264			_c2022
300			_a194 sheets; _c31 cm. _eIncludes CD
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
502			_aThesis (PhD) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research. English Language Teaching Department
504			_aIncludes bibliography (sheets 143-160)
520			_aABSTRACT One of the most fundamental aspects of human life is verbal communication. Pragmatics is a field of study that deals with issues mainly on verbal communication. It is concerned with people’s intended meanings, assumptions, purposes, aims, and actions. In this respect, the current study endowered to investigate and determine the extent to which Iraqi Kurdish university EFL learners’ level of English, as a foreign language, can perceive and generate implicatures. Several studies investigated Pragmatic aspects in general and in the current setting. However, the majority of studies focused on the pragmatic competence of English language learners. Only a few research examined learners’ pragmatic ability through observation of their performance in the target language. Unlike other aspects, especially among Kurdish EFL learners in Northern Iraq, implicature comprehension and production have neither been investigated nor has been a subject of cross-cultural or cross-linguistic research. The study utilized a descriptive and quantitative research design in which data were collected using two instruments: A 19-item Multiple Discourse Completion Test (MDCT) to collect comprehension data and a 12-item Written Discourse Completion Test (WDCT) to collect the production data. The study participants comprised 109 (67 female & 42 male) Kurdish EFL university students (KEFLUS) and 20 (13 female & 7 male) native speakers of English (NSE). The collected data were analyzed using SPSS, the Gricean framework (1975), and a rating rubric developed by Jernigan (2007). The results unveiled Kurdish EFL learners have a low level of implicature comprehension as well as production. As opposed to particularized implicatures, participants were more successful in the interpretation of generalized ones. Results displayed learners had difficulty understanding conversational implicatures that are context-dependent and sensitive to culture. It is also revealed that the transfer of knowledge and mother tongue seem to govern the way in which they comprehend and produce implicatures. Moreover, the findings showed female learners outperformed their male counterparts in the tests. Likewise, private university learners performed better than public university students. Finally, a discrepancy between KEFLUS and NSE was observed.
650		0	_aPragmatics _vDissertations, Academic
650		0	_aSecond language acquisition _vDissertations, Academic
650		0	_aEnglish language _xStudy and teaching _xForeign speakers
700	1		_aMohaööadzadeh, Behbood _esupervisor
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