Author(s): Nadhim Obaid Hussein, Intan Safinas Mohd Ariff Albakri

Abstract: This study described English learners' pragmatics development, learners' pragmatics competence in the selected speech act of request as a one of the most impotence aspects of pragmatic, request strategies that they utilized in gaining pragmatic ability. The study was presented by a public curriculum lead that prioritizes the necessity for English students to develop their ability to utilize request strategies positively in academic and cultural communications. Moreover, Many English students fail to present pragmatic aspects on how to understand different strategies by relating utterances to their meanings, knowing the intention of language users, and how request strategies are utilized in specific locations. There is developing material of studies on awareness-raising of the value of pragmatic competence and request strategies for EFL schoolroom teaching. However, researchers have pointed to concentrate on the traditional methods rather than how English learners require or understand request strategies to develop the students' production of request in the EFL schoolroom. The request strategies and methods of teaching English to these Iraqi learners have been deliberated in details of the existing paper.

Keywords: Pragmatics growth, Request strategies, Pragmatic competence, and EFL learners.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.45.14