Analysing the pragmatic content in the conversation sections in Indonesian ELT textbooks / Eka Siswantara and Kamisah Ariffin

Pragmatic competence is a core part of communicative competence and has become the main focus of teaching and learning process in today’s English language teaching. Thus, it is pivotal to have more of pragmatic materials in English textbooks since they are the major references used in the classroom....

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Main Authors: Siswantara, Eka, Ariffin, Kamisah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA 2021
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14693/1/14693.pdf
https://doi.org/10.24191/ijmal.v5i3.14035
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description Pragmatic competence is a core part of communicative competence and has become the main focus of teaching and learning process in today’s English language teaching. Thus, it is pivotal to have more of pragmatic materials in English textbooks since they are the major references used in the classroom. This study examined the conversation section in the series of Indonesian ELT textbooks to see whether the pragmatic content as required in the curriculum is fulfilled. Using Searle’s speech acts model as the framework, content analysis method was applied by using descriptive approach in analyzing the elocutionary acts and forces pro-vided in the textbooks. The findings indicate that despite their occurrences on the textbooks, some of the speech acts provided were low in frequency and lacked variety to develop better pragmatic competence for the students. This has significant implications on the textbook writers in developing content materials for the pragmatic competence.
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spelling oai:ir.uitm.edu.my:146932022-07-04T01:31:34Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14693/ Analysing the pragmatic content in the conversation sections in Indonesian ELT textbooks / Eka Siswantara and Kamisah Ariffin ijmal Siswantara, Eka Ariffin, Kamisah Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar Modern English Study and teaching Pragmatic competence is a core part of communicative competence and has become the main focus of teaching and learning process in today’s English language teaching. Thus, it is pivotal to have more of pragmatic materials in English textbooks since they are the major references used in the classroom. This study examined the conversation section in the series of Indonesian ELT textbooks to see whether the pragmatic content as required in the curriculum is fulfilled. Using Searle’s speech acts model as the framework, content analysis method was applied by using descriptive approach in analyzing the elocutionary acts and forces pro-vided in the textbooks. The findings indicate that despite their occurrences on the textbooks, some of the speech acts provided were low in frequency and lacked variety to develop better pragmatic competence for the students. This has significant implications on the textbook writers in developing content materials for the pragmatic competence. Universiti Teknologi MARA 2021-07 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14693/1/14693.pdf Analysing the pragmatic content in the conversation sections in Indonesian ELT textbooks / Eka Siswantara and Kamisah Ariffin. (2021) International Journal of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics (IJMAL) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/International_Journal_of_Modern_Languages_and_Applied_Linguistics_=28IJMAL=29/>, 5 (3): 5. pp. 1-18. ISSN e-ISSN: 2600-7266 https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/ https://doi.org/10.24191/ijmal.v5i3.14035 https://doi.org/10.24191/ijmal.v5i3.14035
spellingShingle Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
Modern English
Study and teaching
Siswantara, Eka
Ariffin, Kamisah
Analysing the pragmatic content in the conversation sections in Indonesian ELT textbooks / Eka Siswantara and Kamisah Ariffin
title Analysing the pragmatic content in the conversation sections in Indonesian ELT textbooks / Eka Siswantara and Kamisah Ariffin
title_full Analysing the pragmatic content in the conversation sections in Indonesian ELT textbooks / Eka Siswantara and Kamisah Ariffin
title_fullStr Analysing the pragmatic content in the conversation sections in Indonesian ELT textbooks / Eka Siswantara and Kamisah Ariffin
title_full_unstemmed Analysing the pragmatic content in the conversation sections in Indonesian ELT textbooks / Eka Siswantara and Kamisah Ariffin
title_short Analysing the pragmatic content in the conversation sections in Indonesian ELT textbooks / Eka Siswantara and Kamisah Ariffin
title_sort analysing the pragmatic content in the conversation sections in indonesian elt textbooks eka siswantara and kamisah ariffin
topic Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
Modern English
Study and teaching
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14693/1/14693.pdf
https://doi.org/10.24191/ijmal.v5i3.14035
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