Open AccessEnhancing Efl college students’ Language proficiency :Through Sociolinguistic Competence
Author(s) -
Sundus Aj. Kamil
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
al-ustād̲
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2518-9263
pISSN - 0552-265X
DOI - 10.36473/ujhss.v218i1.524
Subject(s) - psychology , language proficiency , competence (human resources) , mathematics education , pedagogy , social psychology
The aim of this study is to shed the light on sociolinguistic competence and to identify the EFL college students knowledge of it in a way to support their target language proficiency. This research is a descriptive one where a sample of (30) students at the college of Education /IbnRushd, University of Baghdad for the academic year 2014-2015 are randomly chosen from fourth year classes to respond to the questionnaire constructed by the researcher to identify the college students’ knowledge of sociolinguistic competence. The questionnaire was validated by being reviewed and adjusted according to the remarks provided by a number of experts in the field. The students’ responses have been statistically analyzed and rejected positively the null hypothesis to capture the importance of students’ knowledge of sociolinguistic competence in favour of better language proficiency on the students part.