Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Sakarya University Journal of Education, cilt.12, sa.1, ss.41-57, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
Appropriate speech act realisation promotes foreign language (FL) learners’ pragmatic competence, and linked with that, their communicative competence. This quasi-experimental study explored the influence of a treatment based on a six-hour explicit instruction on how to appropriately refuse the requests of the interlocutors having higher, equal and lower status on sophomore PEFLTs’ ability to properly perform the speech act of refusals. To scrutinize the effect of the treatment provided to the experimental group, pre- and post-discourse completion tests (DCTs) administered in the experimental and control group were used. The findings obtained through the analysis of the data from the post-DCT indicated that the control group participants receiving no treatment yet covering the information in the textbook concerning the speech act of refusals performed it better as against their performance on the pre-DCT. However, the findings demonstrated that the treatment led the experimental group to produce their refusals more appropriately seeing the status of interlocutors than the control group.