The Relationship between Language Awareness and Pragmatic Performance: A Case of Iranian EFL Learners

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine if language awareness affect Iranian EFL learners' pragmatic performance. Ninety language learners at English institutes were requested to complete the elicitation instruments. The elicitation instruments used for data collection were a) Grammaticality Judgement Test (GJT), to decide on their language awareness, and b) the Discourse Completion Test (DCT) developed by Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Weltz (1990), to investigate their pragmatic ability. The data collected from the administration of the above mentioned two tests were then analyzed using the descriptive statistics, and correlation coefficient. The results revealed learners’ pragmatic performance was significantly affected by their language awareness.