EFL learners rank speaking as the skill most urgently needing improvement, with pragmatic routines the top speaking sub-skill¶

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q2 i? In a needs-analysis questionnaire, learners ranked speaking first among language skills needing improvement (N=72) and pragmatic routines first among speaking sub-skills (64 of 134). → Üstünbaş 2017

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Üstünbaş 2017¶

Üstünbaş, Ü. (2017). Language Learners' Feelings about Pragmatics in Action. Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 11(2), 155-168. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/novitasroyal

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Questionnaire administered to the 134 participants, who ranked language skills from highest to lowest need for improvement. Speaking ranked first; "64 out of 134 participants consider pragmatic routines as the sub-skill having the utmost significance."

"it was found that EFL learners see their primary area of need for improvement as speaking (N=72), followed by vocabulary knowledge (N=42), grammar (N=13), listening (N=5), and writing (N=1)."

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