The effect of explicit instruction on the english preparatory class students: an analysis of request realization patterns

Speech acts are considered to be one of the principal components of pragmatic competence. The need for language learners to use speech act of request that involves a series of strategies is the significance of the study. The participants of the study were 60 Turkish EFL students (30 experimental / 30 control group) studying at the English Preparatory School of Munzur University, Tunceli, Turkey. The data were collected through Written Discourse Completion Task (WDCT) and analysed based on the framework of Taguchi (2006) and the Cross Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP) conducted by Blum-Kulka et al. (1987) by using descriptive statistics. Findings of the current study revealed that even though both groups used most of the strategies proposed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989) in the CCSARP Coding Manual, the distribution of the strategies differed across the two groups.