On the Effect of Task-based language Teaching on the Pragmatic Competence (Illocutionary Force) of the Iranian Male and Female Students

Journal of Language and Translation

مقاله 2، دوره 2.1، شماره 1، شهریور 2012، صفحه 11-23   

نوع مقاله: Research Articles

نویسنده

Iraj Noroozi^*

Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Pishva Branch, Iran

چکیده

The present research study, based on a systematic procedure, investigates the impact of the illocu- tionary and locutionary forces of the pragmatic competence on the Iranian male and female language teaching juniors. By virtue of gaining a persuasive and forceful ultimate goal of this study 400 lan- guage teaching Iranian juniors attended this study. Phase 1 witnessed a T-test where 60 males and females of the subjects were randomly classified into two-30 subject groups. The experimental group was assigned tasks based on illocutionary act measures where the communicative force of the utter- ances was taken into account and the control group was given tasks based on locutionary act where the well-formedness of the utterances was considered for the period of twelve sessions. As the post- test five native like Iranian Ph.D holders in linguistics who had full command of pragmatic compe- tence in general and speech act theory in particular were hired to interview all the 60 subjects to un- ravel their differences. The acquired result revealed that the experimental group was much more versed in pragmatic competence regarding the illocutionary force of speech act theory. Phase 2 was allotted to a correlational study. The researcher intended to look into the degree of correlation be- tween the locutionary and the illocutionary forces. The scores of 30 subjects in illocutionary experi- mental group were correlated with those of the locutionary control group. The coefficient of correla- tion demonstrated that there was a negligible positive correlation between the two variables. In phase 3 a 2x2 factorial design was employed where the120 male and female participants were subjected to the locutionary and illocutionary act. According to the observed F it was proved that the females out- performed the male subjects in both locutionary and illocutionary acts.
 

کلیدواژه‌ها

Correlation؛ Factorial Design؛ Illocutionary؛ Locutionary؛ pragmatic competence؛ t-test