The Asian ESP Journal October 2020 Volume 16, Issue 5.2 Chief Editor - Roger Nunn 1 Published by ELE Publishing (Division of the TESOL Asia Group) TESOL Asia Group is wholly owned by SITE SKILL TRAINING Pty Ltd (Australia) All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of ELE Publishing or the Chief Editor of Asian ESP. No unauthorized photocopying Publisher: ELE Publishing Managing Editor of ELE Publishing: Dr. John Adamson Chief Editor of the Asian ESP Journal: Professor Roger Nunn Associate Production Editor: Ramon Medriano, Jr. Production Editor: Eva Guzman ISSN. 2206-0979 2 Table of Contents 1 .Nareeman Jabbar Rasheed, Huda H. Khalil and Hiba Kareem Neamah……........05 - 20 Pragmatic Analysis of WhatsApp Status Updates in Iraq 2. Abubaker Suleiman Abdelmajid Yousif...…...……………………………………...............21 - 38 The Influence of Task-based Language Teaching on Writing and Reading Performance of EFL Sudanese University Students in Sudan 3. Muhammad Ajmal, Saleh Alrasheedi, Muhammed Salim Keezhatta and Ghulam Mujtaba Yasir……………............................................................................................39 - 56 COVID‐19 and Online English Language Teaching: Students’ Response and Feedback 4 .Rasib Mahmood, Akhter Habib Shah and Iftikhar Alam..………………..........................57 - 68 The Impact of L1 on L2 in Academic English Writing: A Multilingual Dilemma of Pakistani Students 5 .Ahmed Benyo and Tribhuwan Kumar………………………………………..……………69 - 85 An Analysis of Indian EFL Learners’ Listening Comprehension Errors 6 .Bashar Ragheb Hasan Odeh, Nasser Mohammed Saleh Al-Sa’egh …………...…………86 - 101 andMohammed Ali Mohammed Qarabesh Corona Pandemic and New Educational Interventions for Saudi Learners: A Socio-Psychological Study at Qassim University 7 .Mohammed Ali Mohammed Qarabesh………………....................………………………..102 - 115 Implementation of Process and Product-Based Writing Approaches 3 8. Ulbossyn Baimanova, Bakhytzhan Akhmedov, Askarbay Niyazov, Kaliya Kiyassova and Azat Kazakov………………………………………………….….…..……………….……116 - 130 Training Future English Teachers for the Formation of Critical Thinking in Students 9. Fahad Saleh Suleiman Alfallaj...………………………………………………. ………..…131 - 152 Non-Digital Gamification of the English as Foreign Language Classroom: Developing the Tools at Home 10. Murad Al Kayed...…..……………………………...…………………………………..…....153 - 165 A study of Pragmatic Failure among Jordanian EFL Learners 11. Imroatus Solikhah and Teguh Budiharso …………………….….…………...…………...166 - 190 Standardizing BIPA as an International Program of a Language Policy 12. Dwi Ima Herminingsih and Mohamad Jazeri…………………………………………......191 - 203 Elevating the Speaking Ability through a Culture Talk in a Video: Evidence from Universitas Tulungagung, Indonesia 13. Umar Fauzan, Arif Husein Lubis and Eri Kurniawan...……………………...……....…..204 - 232 Rhetorical Moves and Linguistic Complexity of Research Article Abstracts in International Applied Linguistics Journals for English Reading Materials Development 14 . Abdullah H. Alfauzan and Mohammad Shariq……………………...…….........……233 - 247 Media and Communal Guidance: An Analytical Study of Corona-Campaigns 15 . Ameen Alahdal………………………….....………………………………..……....…..248 - 276 A Syntactic Approach to Verb Movement in Arabic 4 Pragmatic Analysis of WhatsApp Status Updates in Iraq Nareeman Jabbar Rasheed, Huda H. Khalil, Hiba Kareem Neamah Department of English, College of education for women, University of Baghdad Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Biodata: Nareeman Jabbar Rasheed (Ph. D) is an Applied Linguistics researcher working at College of Education for Women, University of Baghdad – Iraq. She has publications in Language and Linguistics and other reputed journals. Her research interests are Language, Applied Linguistics and Interdisciplinary areas. She has applied a variety of methodologies in her research. Email: [email protected] Huda H. Khalil is a faculty member in the Department of English, College of Education for Women, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, since 2002.The major field of study is English Language and Linguistics. She has a number of researches works in pragmatics, stylistics and discourse analysis. Email: [email protected] Hiba Kareem Neamah is an English Linguistics researcher, specialized in pragmatics, working at College of Education for Women-English department, University of Baghdad-Iraq. She has publications in Language and linguistics. The interests of her research are English Linguistics, pragmatics, and interdisciplinary areas. Email: [email protected] 5 Abstract WhatsApp has spread exponentially through various areas, and people's everyday lives across the globe. This study examines some of the most critical areas in discursive realisations and pragmatic topics of WhatsApp status, which are the pragmatic topics used and the discursive realisations of users' status updates. 846 compilation of WhatsApp user profile status updates were checked. Data were collected between February and May 2020 from three users of diverse backgrounds and educational levels. The statuses have been qualitatively analyzed concerning both the pragmatic topics and discursive realizations. The primary results obtained from the analysis revealed a series of discursive realizations, including 31% of 5tautomatically-generated statuses and 69% of self-generated statuses. Data indicated that the most commonly used self-generated type was pure text, which comprised 53%. Data identified five domains concerning the main pragmatic topics employed by WhatsApp users, which are personal thoughts, social life, spirituality, nationhood's spirit, and adverts. The article ends with drawbacks and suggestions for researchers to do more related studies shortly. Keywords: WhatsApp; pragmatic; discursive realization; social media Introduction Nowadays, English has become a globalized language spoken by people from different culutural and linguistic background particularly after the tremendous advances in technology (Alzeebaree & Yavuz, 2017, as cited in Alzeebaree & Hasan, 2020). Technology has affected many facets of our lives. The implementation of technology has "reorganised how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn" (Siemens, 2005). Technology has intrigued people, and diverse methods have often been used to make the freedom to thrive a better and convenient way of living. The numerous technological advances and inventions have made it possible to function in a better and more efficient way (Alakrash &Bustan 2020). Cell phones, together with the Internet, have made a major contribution to this transition. Smart devices and the many apps we install have become essential elements of our daily lives (Sultan, 2014). As we all live, we invest a lot of time exploring the different apps and services on our cell phones. This includes a variety of actions, including text messaging, which has become the most popular means of communication in social networks (Sultan, 2014; Al-Ghamdi & Alrefaee, 2020). The user activities have all been controlled by interaction with friends, families, and other connections. Some of these practices include rooms for self-expression in various applications. 6 Each person will now express anything he or she desires to make it accessible to as many viewers as possible. Smartphone consumers also have multiple channels for both send messages sharing their attitudes and commenting on topics in or out of their society. In the context of digital communication, online organisations may connect to web social networking. A coherent concept in the sense of online networking is essentially a combination of creativity and social collaboration to recreate quality — customers may discover electronic and print results for various aspects such as news, instructions, and other knowledge. Online media is mostly mechanical or conventional, for instance, local newspapers, television, and films, because they are accessible on any platform quite easily and efficiently (Bustan & Alakrash 2020; Medriano & Bautista, 2020). One post shared through web-based social networking has the potential to allow small or massive events; for example, one person or plenty of people will access a blog post. Social networking has since been credited for transforming the way public affairs practitioners operate. They give an online space where people can share knowledge about businesses, labels, and services. Not only to professionals, but it has also induced the youngsters regarding its uses, i.e. whether sharing of notes or messages or important documents any time anywhere. WhatsApp is now one of the world's leading popular apps. Brian Acton and Jan Koum developed the application in 2009, which intended to create a free of charge SMS platform to make communication easier and faster (Yeboah & Ewur 2014). WhatsApp has become the most common application in the Arab Peninsula (Dev et al., 2019). It binds more than one billion users per day, with almost 55 billion messages sent by a billion people. Aside from linking messages with WhatsApp, status updates provide a medium to exchange feelings and thoughts on issues and events among one another. By using these texts, users can openly share their thoughts and feelings with friends and contacts (Al-Khawaldeh