AbstractThe 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.....