Open AccessPromoting pragmatic awareness of Indonesian English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners through teaching speech acts of oral and written complaints
Author(s) -
Waliyadin Nuridin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vision: journal for language and foreign language learning/vision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-4399
pISSN - 2252-8385
DOI - 10.21580/vjv8i12979
Subject(s) - speech act , indonesian , complaint , competence (human resources) , psychology , linguistics , communicative competence , politeness , foreign language , pedagogy , political science , social psychology , philosophy , law
The lack of pragmatic competence could result in unexpected effects on the speakers; for example, the speakers are considered as rude and aggressive people. Accordingly, developing pragmatic competence for EFL learners should be a great concern. This article is aimed to fill in the needs of pragmatic teaching by providing examples of teaching practices that have successfully developed learners’ pragmatic competence. There are two tasks that have been designed and implemented by drawing on discourse processing framework proposed by Celce-Murcia and Olshtain (2000) to achieve the production of both written and spoken discourses. The first task is on speaking, particularly on the speech act of oral complaints. The second task is on writing a letter of complaint. This article suggests that developing pragmatic awareness through the speech act of oral and written complaints is effective.