The study aimed to investigate whether pragmatic instruction has an effect on Iraqi students' usage of request and whether male and female students differ in their usage of overall strategy and strategy patterns. This study also explored Iraqi EFL learners' perceptions of learning speech act of request and investigate whether Iraqi students were able to present the appropriate linguistic and pragmatic forms in performing speech act of request. Experimental design was adopted in this study. A discourse completion test (DCT) and a questionnaire were used for data collection. 80 undergraduate students participated in the study and they were divided into two groups; the control group consisted of 40 learners who did not receive any pragmatic instruction, and the experimental group that composed of 40 learners who were taught request strategies via pragmatic instruction. The results revealed that the experimental group showed a significant improvement in the scores of four compon.....

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