An Investigation of Teachers’ Attitude towards developing Kurdish EFL University Students’ Sociopragmatic Competence
Afifa Ahmad Jamil
College of Basic Education/ University of Kurdistan Region
Ayad Hameed Mahmood
College of education for human science / University of Diyala
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.6.3.2.9
Keywords: Attitude, sociopragmatic competence, verbal and non-verbal elements
Abstract
This research aims at finding out the attitude of teachers toward developing Kurdish EFL university students’ verbal and non-verbal sociopragmatic competence, and the problems of developing this sort of competence that are mainly cultural problems. The sample of the study consists of fifty EFL instructors, who have experienced in teaching speaking, conversation, communication, and cross-cultural communication at the colleges of education and basic education at six universities: Sulaimani, Salahaddin -Erbil, Duhok, Halabja, Charmo and Garmian Universities A quantitative method has been adopted for this study and the data have been collected through using a survey questionnaire. The findings of the research reveal that teachers regarded sociopragmatic competence as an essential part of teaching in EFL classes. The findings also show that teachers agree that the problems of developing sociopragmatic elements relate to the fact that students lack cultural knowledge and they are unable to identify cultural similarities and differences between Kurdish and English.
