Requesting Speech Acts: A Case Study of Arabic Education Students in Bandung
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.070How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Arabic; pragmatic competence; pragmalinguistics; requesting; speech act
- Abstract
It is complicated to choose and use the right request sentence strategy and in accordance with the norms and culture that apply in the Arabic language. It will be even more difficult if the sentence is selected and produced by non-native speaker (NNS). This study was aimed at investigating the pragmalinguistics of request sentences in Arabic used by the students. Descriptive qualitative approach was used in this study. The participants in this study were 20 postgraduate students of Arabic language education at one public university in Bandung, consisting of 20 postgraduate students. The participants were selected to fill out a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) consisting of five requests during activities on campus, by adapting Blum-Kulka et al. (1989)’s request strategies. The results of this study showed that Arabic language education students used various request strategies from the predetermined Arabic language standards. However, there were some students who did not use Arabic request sentences correctly. It is due to a lack of pragmatic competence, so that they have difficulty transferring the source language (SL) into the target language (TL). Therefore, to improve the students’ pragmatic competence in responding to requests in Arabic, lecturers must teach a lot of pragmatic competencies and develop existing textbooks that can help in improving students’ pragmatic competencies.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Mohamad Zaka Al Farisi AU - Anwar Sanusi AU - Tatang AU - Shofa Musthafa Khalid AU - Yusuf Ali Tantowi PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/21 TI - Requesting Speech Acts: A Case Study of Arabic Education Students in Bandung BT - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 454 EP - 459 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211119.070 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.070 ID - Farisi2021 ER -