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Pragmatic Competence in Teaching English to the Students of Medicine at Taiz University Diana Al-Aghbari Integrating pragmatic competence in teaching English to the students of medicine at Taiz University Diana Al-Aghbari To cite this version: Diana Al-Aghbari. Integrating pragmatic competence in teaching English to the students of medicine at Taiz University. Linguistics. Université de Strasbourg, 2016. English. NNT : 2016STRAC016. tel-01494800 HAL Id: tel-01494800 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01494800 Submitted on 24 Mar 2017 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. 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UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG ÉCOLE DOCTORALE DES HUMANITÉS Linguistique, Langues, Parole (LiLPa) - EA 1339 THÈSE présentée par: Diana AL-AGHBARI soutenue le : 29 septembre 2016 pour obtenir le grade de : Docteur de l’université de Strasbourg Discipline/ Spécialité: Langues et Littératures Étrangères/ Anglais Integrating Pragmatic Competence in Teaching English to the Students of Medicine at Taiz University THÈSE dirigée par : Madame PAULIN Catherine Professeur des universités, université de Strasbourg JURY : Monsieur ALBRESPIT Jean Professeur des universités, université de Bordeaux Montaigne Monsieur BENAYOUN Jean-Michel Professeur des universités, université de Paris Diderot Monsieur HAMM Albert Professeur des universités, université de Strasbourg This Page is intentionally left blank 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ......................................................................................... 3 LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................... 7 LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................. 8 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................... 9 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..................................................................................... 11 RÉSUMÉ ............................................................................................................... 13 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 37 CHAPTER 1: Preliminary Considerations. ........................................................ 48 1. 1 A Study in Interlanguage Pragmatics ......................................................... 50 1. 2 Teaching Pragmatics in the Foreign Language Context ............................. 54 1. 3 The Concept of Appropriateness: Which Norms to follow........................... 59 1. 4 Pragmatic Competence and Linguistic Competence .................................. 65 1. 5 Summary .................................................................................................... 72 CHAPTER 2: Literature Review .......................................................................... 73 PART ONE: Pragmatics: Exploring the Territory ................................................ 74 2. 1 Context in Pragmatics................................................................................. 74 2. 2 Defining Pragmatics.................................................................................... 77 2. 3 Origin of Pragmatics ................................................................................... 79 2. 4 Borders of Pragmatics ................................................................................ 83 3 2. 5 Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory ........................................................... 88 2. 5. 1 Requests ............................................................................................. 93 2. 5. 2 Refusals .............................................................................................. 94 2. 5. 3 Apologies ............................................................................................ 95 2. 6 Pragmatics and Politeness ......................................................................... 97 2. 6. 1 Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory ........................................... 99 2. 6. 2 Politeness and Culture ...................................................................... 102 PART TWO: Pragmatics in the ESP Context ................................................... 105 2. 7 ESP and Pragmatics................................................................................. 105 2. 7. 1 Exploring the Liaison ......................................................................... 106 2. 7. 2 Previous Studies on the relationship between ESP and Pragmatics. 108 2. 8 The Case within ESP: Medical Students .................................................. 111 2. 9 Getting into the Core: Pragmatic Competence ......................................... 114 2. 9. 1 Pragmatic Competence and Communicative Competence ............... 115 2. 9. 2 Pragmatic Awareness and Pragmatic Failure ................................... 120 2. 10 Summary ................................................................................................ 124 CHAPTER 3: Methodology ............................................................................... 125 3. 1 Contextual Background ............................................................................ 126 3. 1. 1 Brief History of Yemen ...................................................................... 126 3. 1. 2 The Educational System: An Overview ............................................. 129 3. 1. 3 The Status of English in Yemen ........................................................ 135 3. 2 Research Design ...................................................................................... 141 3. 3 Participants ............................................................................................... 144 3. 3. 1 Participants in the questionnaire ....................................................... 144 4 3. 3. 2 Participants in the interview .............................................................. 146 3. 4 Research Instruments............................................................................... 148 3. 4. 1 The Questionnaire ............................................................................. 149 3. 4. 2 The Interview .................................................................................... 156 3. 5 Pilot Study ................................................................................................ 162 3. 6 Data Collection ......................................................................................... 165 3. 6. 1 The First Stage: distributing questionnaires ...................................... 165 3. 6. 2 The Second Stage: conducting interviews ........................................ 167 3. 7 Summary .................................................................................................. 169 CHAPTER 4: Data Analysis and Results ......................................................... 170 4. 1 Questionnaire Data ................................................................................... 172 4. 1. 1 Awareness Test Data ........................................................................ 172 4. 1. 2 DCT Data .......................................................................................... 185 4. 2 Interview Data ........................................................................................... 211 4. 2. 1 The graduates’ own experience with English .................................... 214 4. 2. 2 The graduates’ viewpoints of English for medical students ............... 218 4. 3 Summary .................................................................................................. 225 CHAPTER 5: Discussion................................................................................... 226 5. 1 Addressing the Research Questions ........................................................ 227 5. 1. 1 The First Research Question ............................................................ 227 5. 1. 2 The Second Research Question ....................................................... 251 5. 2 Study Implications .................................................................................... 256 5. 2. 1 The Proposed Model: Theoretical Considerations ............................ 260 5. 2. 2 The Proposed Model: Application ..................................................... 269 5 5. 3 Limitations of the Study ............................................................................ 280 5. 5 Summary .................................................................................................. 282 CONCLUSION .................................................................................................... 283 REFERENCES .................................................................................................... 288 APPENDICES ..................................................................................................... 314 6 LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Students' Profile ..................................................................................... 146 Table 2 Interviewees' Profile ..............................................................................
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