AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SPEECH ACT OF REQUEST IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR YOUNG LEARNERS IN STATE SCHOOLS

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This study focuses on the development of one of the primary components of pragmatics: Speech Act Theory, and more specifically the speech act of request. The development of speech act of request in young learners in the context of English as a Foreign Language will be examined through two steps. These steps include (1) testing the curriculum regarding the inclusion of the request speech act as well as the alignment between the curricular objectives and material content, and (2) the comparative evaluation of seven textbooks provided by the Turkish Ministry of National Education for three primary school levels: 2nd, 3rd & 4th grades. The findings show that the textbooks have quite low levels of alignment with the curriculum and need serious improvement. In addition, the results of the analyses run for the evaluation of textbooks point to an inconsistently linear increase in the inclusion of request speech act utterances, meaning that slight improvement is observed between the 2nd & the 3rd-grade materials, whereas it is higher when transitioning to the 4th-grade level.

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pragmatics, speech act theory, request, young learners, textbook evaluation

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/101168

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S. Dogru, “AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SPEECH ACT OF REQUEST IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR YOUNG LEARNERS IN STATE SCHOOLS,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2022.