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Iraqi EFL University Students’ Strategies of Producing Invitation

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  • Nadia Majeed Hussein

    (PhD, Middle Technical University, Iraq)

  • Abbas Lutfi Hussein

    (PhD, Mustansiriyah University, College of Arts, Iraq)

  • Noor Qasim Kareem

    (University of Misan, College of Education, Iraq)

Abstract

Invitations are social activities that usually occur among individuals (and particularly among friends) in everyday life, utilized to keep rapport, increase social solidarity, and maintain good relationships. However, people use various types of pragmatic and linguistic strategies to yield invitations. Thus, this paper aims to detect Iraqi University students’ ability to use the illocutionary act of invitation. Fifty Iraqi EFL 4th year students of the University of Misan have been administered to a production text. Responses to the test have been collected and analyzed. The paper concludes that those students mostly do not have the ability to produce utterances of invitation, and they encounter difficulty when producing them. In addition, they show a high preference to use modality, imperatives and interrogatives in most situations. Most of their utterances concerning invitation are translations of Iraqi utterances used in everyday Iraqi spoken situations.

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  • Nadia Majeed Hussein & Abbas Lutfi Hussein & Noor Qasim Kareem, 2022. "Iraqi EFL University Students’ Strategies of Producing Invitation," International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development, vol. 5(3), pages 11-18, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:alk:ijllt0:v:5:y:2022:i:3:id:3016
    DOI: 10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.3.2
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