Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)

Requesting Speech Acts: A Case Study of Arabic Education Students in Bandung

Authors
Mohamad Zaka Al Farisi*, Anwar Sanusi, Tatang, Shofa Musthafa Khalid, Yusuf Ali Tantowi
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: zaka@upi.edu
Corresponding Author
Mohamad Zaka Al Farisi
Available Online 21 November 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211119.070How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Arabic; pragmatic competence; pragmalinguistics; requesting; speech act
Abstract

It is complicated to choose and use the right request sentence strategy and in accordance with the norms and culture that apply in the Arabic language. It will be even more difficult if the sentence is selected and produced by non-native speaker (NNS). This study was aimed at investigating the pragmalinguistics of request sentences in Arabic used by the students. Descriptive qualitative approach was used in this study. The participants in this study were 20 postgraduate students of Arabic language education at one public university in Bandung, consisting of 20 postgraduate students. The participants were selected to fill out a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) consisting of five requests during activities on campus, by adapting Blum-Kulka et al. (1989)’s request strategies. The results of this study showed that Arabic language education students used various request strategies from the predetermined Arabic language standards. However, there were some students who did not use Arabic request sentences correctly. It is due to a lack of pragmatic competence, so that they have difficulty transferring the source language (SL) into the target language (TL). Therefore, to improve the students’ pragmatic competence in responding to requests in Arabic, lecturers must teach a lot of pragmatic competencies and develop existing textbooks that can help in improving students’ pragmatic competencies.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
21 November 2021
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.211119.070
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211119.070How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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