Students’ Apologizing in Arabic: A Case Study at an Islamic Boarding School in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200513.051How to use a DOI?

Keywords

apologizing, pragmatic competence, speech acts, boarding school students BSSs

Abstract

Apologies are the most fundamental strategies for remedying offences and reflecting the degree of the speakers’ politeness. This study aims to investigate the language of apologizing in the Arabic language as used by students of an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia. The study follows a descriptive approach. The participants are 101 male students who recruited to fill a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) that consists of eight situations about the boarding school rules. The findings show that the students of the Islamic boarding school employed apology strategies that vary from the Arabic standards of apologizing to some extent. The study concludes that to enhance the BSS’s realization of the speech acts of apologizing in Arabic, teachers must develop the current textbooks that may help in developing the students’ pragmatic competence.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Abdulkhaleq Al-Rawafi
AU  - Dadang Sudana
AU  - Iwa Lukmana
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/15
TI  - Students’ Apologizing in Arabic: A Case Study at an Islamic Boarding School in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Asian Education Symposium (AES 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 229
EP  - 235
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200513.051
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200513.051
ID  - Al-Rawafi2020
ER  -