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Comparing Iraqi and Chinese EFL students’ speech acts of complaint, the researcher demonstrates effects cultural differences have on pragmatic competence, and makes the case for improved pedagogic processes that include providing for native like communicative encounters to English learners in Iraq and China. Intended audience: teachers and teacher trainers.
Khaldoon Al-Mofti is an Applied Linguistics lecturer and researcher at Anbar University, Iraq. His research areas include second language acquisition, interpretation and translation, and critical discourse analysis.
