A Digital EFL Learning Program in Pragmatics for Developing English Majors' Communicative Speaking, Pragmatics Competence and Attitudes Towards Digital Learning

This investigation aimed at studying the effect of a digital EFL learning program in pragmatics on developing English majors' communicative speaking, pragmatics competence and attitudes towards digital learning. Participants were thirty first year English majors at Minia Faculty of Education. The instruments of the study included a communicative speaking test, a pragmatics competence test, and an attitude scale. A pragmatics-based program was prepared for training. Results showed high significant differences on the pre-post measures of the communicative speaking test, the pragmatics competence test and the attitude scale, favoring the post administration. This indicated the positive effect of the-training program. It is recommended that curriculum designers should integrate some aspects of pragmatics in English majors' curriculum.
This investigation aimed at studying the effect of a digital EFL learning program in pragmatics on developing English majors' communicative speaking, pragmatics competence and attitudes towards digital learning. Participants were thirty first year English majors at Minia Faculty of Education. The instruments of the study included a communicative speaking test, a pragmatics competence test, and an attitude scale. A pragmatics-based program was prepared for training. Results showed high significant differences on the pre-post measures of the communicative speaking test, the pragmatics competence test and the attitude scale, favoring the post administration. This indicated the positive effect of the-training program. It is recommended that curriculum designers should integrate some aspects of pragmatics in English majors' curriculum.