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Publication Date: 2019
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Pragmatically-Oriented Input in Business English Textbooks: The Case of Speech Act Realization
Hassan Solouki
Language Teaching Research Quarterly, v9 p46-57 2019
As textbooks are main sources for pragmatic development in EFL contexts, they are evaluated to see if they contain adequate inputs. Hence, the frequency of four ubiquitous speech acts (apology, complaint, refusal, request) across four business English textbooks (Business Basics, Business Result, Business Venture, Powerbase) was analyzed. The pragmatic analysis showed that requests and complaints were respectively the most and the least frequent speech acts distributed in Business Basics (124; 3), Business Result (1068; 32), Business Venture (135; 8), and Powerbase (230; 24). The highest frequency of speech acts was found in Business Result's Advanced; Business Venture's Version 1; and Powerbase's Beginner levels. Due to the insufficient distribution of speech acts across the textbooks and within the levels, it is recommended that materials developers reconsider the adequacy of pragmatic input and draw on supplementary materials to compensate for such speech act realization inadequacy.
Descriptors: Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Acts, Textbooks, Material Development, Pragmatics, Linguistic Input, Content Analysis, Teaching Methods, Word Frequency, Computational Linguistics
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