<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">متن کامل پایان نامه مقطع کارشناسی ارشد رشته :زبان انگلیسی</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(153, 51, 102);">عنوان : <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Effects Instruction on Pragmatic Development among Iranian EFL Learners:Teaching Polite Refusahs in English</span></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Islamic Azad University, Ilam. Iran</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Department of English Language Teaching</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Thesis for Receiving M.A. Degree on English Language Teaching</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Title:</span></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Effects Instruction on Pragmatic Development among Iranian EFL Learners:Teaching Polite Refusahs in English</span></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Supervisor:</span></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Azizifar. Ph.D</span></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p></li><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p></ol><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Advisor:</span></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Gowhary. Ph.D</span></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p></li><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p></ol><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Spring 2015</span></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">برای رعایت حریم خصوصی نام نگارنده پایان نامه درج نمی شود</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(در فایل دانلودی نام نویسنده موجود است)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">تکه هایی از متن پایان نامه به عنوان نمونه :</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">(ممکن است هنگام انتقال از فایل اصلی به داخل سایت بعضی متون به هم بریزد یا بعضی نمادها و اشکال درج نشود ولی در فایل دانلودی همه چیز مرتب و کامل است)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Table of Contents</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1.1 Pragmatic Competence. 3</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1.2 Speech acts. 5</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1.3 The Speech Act of Refusal…………………………………………………………………. 6</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1.4 Explicit instruction for developing pragmatic knowledge……………………….. 7</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1.5 Statement of the problem…………………………………………………………………… 8</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1.6 Research question and hypothesis………………………………………………………. 9</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1.7 Significance of the Study…………………………………………………………………… 9</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><ol start="2″ style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Review of the literature……………………………………………………………………….. 12</li><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p></ol><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………….. 12</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.2 Semantics versus pragmatics……………………………………………………………… 14</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.3 Pragmatic competence versus pragmatic failure……………………………………. 15</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2 4.Pragmatic Awareness………………………………………………………………………… 16</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.5 Cross-cultural pragmatics………………………………………………………………….. 18</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.6 Factors Influencing L2 Learners, pragmatic Acquisition…………………………. 18</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.6.1 Linguistic competence. 18</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.6.2 Length of Residence in a target Country……………………………………………. 20</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.7 Speech acts. 20</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.8 On heretical frameworks related to L2 pragmatic development 22</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.9 On teachability of pragmatic knowledge. 23</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.10 Factors Influencing L2 Learners’ Pragmatic Acquisition. 25</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2.11 On how EFL learners produce refusals………………………………………………. 26</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><ol start="3″ style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Methodology……………………………………………………………………………………… 36</li><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p></ol><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3.1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………….. 36</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3.2 Participants………………………………………………………………………………………. 36</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3.3 Instrument 37</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3.4 Procedure………………………………………………………………………………………… 37</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3.5 Data analysis. 39</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><ol start="4″ style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Results and discussion………………………………………………………………………… 41</li><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p></ol><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.1 Overview.. 41</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.2 Demographic statistics………………………………………………………………………. 41</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.2.1 Demographic statistics of participants according to gender 41</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.2.2 Demographic statistics of participants according to age. 42</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.3 Descriptive Statistics. 43</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.4 Checking the assumptions of covariance analysis…………………………………. 44</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.5 The findings of the hypothesis of the study. 45</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4.6 Discussion………………………………………………………………………………………. 46</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><ol start="5″ style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Discussion and conclusion. 54</li><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"></p></ol><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5.1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………….. 54</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5.2. Summary……………………………………………………………………………………….. 54</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5.3. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………… 55</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5.4. Implications……………………………………………………………………………………. 56</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5.5. Suggestions for further research. 57</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5.6 Limitations of the study…………………………………………………………………….. 58</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">References. 60</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">64</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">list of Table</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Table 4.1 The Frequency and Percentage of Participants According to Gender 42</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Table 4.2 Frequency and Percentage of Participants According to Age………….. 42</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Table 4.3 Descriptive statistics of learners’ polite refusal in English for experimental and control groups. 43</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Table 4.4. The test results of normality of variable distribution in the participants 44</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Table 4.5. The results of homogeneity of the variances using Levene’s test 44</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Table 4.6. The results of analyzing the homogeneity of the regression slopes in the variable of the study………………………………………………………………………………. 45</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Table 4.7. The ANCOVA results of the posttest mean scores of “polite refusal” 46</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">list of Figure</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Figure 4.1 The Frequency and Percentage of Participants According to Gender 42</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Figure 4.2 Frequency and Percentage of Participants According to Age. 43</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Figure 4.3. The comparison of pre- and posttest between control and experimental groups………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 46</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Abstract</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Communicative competence as the language users’ knowledge of how language is used encompasses one important component, pragmatic competence, which plays an important role in proper use of language in various contexts. The present study brought the concept of pragmatic competence into focus and took up an inquiry to make it clear whether L2 learners’ ability in using the speech acts of refusals can be developed by explicit instruction. To do so, the study encompassed 60 L2 learners who were in intermediate level of ability studying English in some language institutes in Ilam. The study was experimental in its approach having both control and experimental groups which were pre- and posttested to see the effect of interventionist approach on their pragmatic ability. In order to include continuous explanatory variables, covariates, ANCOVA was put to service. For the purpose of getting data to evaluate learners’ degree of refusal knowledge, the participants took the discourse completion test prior and after the training course. The findings of the study revealed that leaners’ knowledge of using speech acts of refusals improved significantly by applying the explicit technique of instruction in the classroom. Results in this study suggest equipping the language learners with understanding of both linguistic forms and behavior patterns in refusing strategies of the target language.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Keywords:</span> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pragmatic competence, speech acts of refusals, explicit instruction, L2 learners</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Chapter One:</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Introduction</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">1.1 Pragmatic Competence</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Over the last two decades, the development of learners’ communicative competence in second or foreign language has established one of the main concerns in language teaching in the field of Second Language Aqcuisition (Kasper & Rose, 2002). Recent models of communicative competence (Celce-Murcia, Dornyei, & Thurrell 1995; Martinez-Flor & Uso-Juan, 2006) have asserted that effective communication in target language entails not only knowledge of language system but knowledge of pragmatic rules and language use. Fundamentally, pragmatics reflects on</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;"><a href="http://jemo.ir/%d9%be%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%87-%d8%b1%d8%b4%d8%aa%d9%87-%d8%b2%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%86%da%af%d9%84%db%8c%d8%b3%db%8cthe-effects-instruction-on-pragmatic-development-am/” style="font-family: yekan, tahoma; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-587321″ src="http://ziso.ir/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/thesis-paper-105.png” alt="پروژه دانشگاهی ” width="400″ height="200″ /></a></p><p style="text-align: right; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> communicative action and its context. Furthermore, pragmatics considers another dimension in communicative action and context that is the users involved.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">It is a noteworthy fact that pragmatics plays a very significant role in the production and perception of speech. Crystal (1985) defines pragmatics as ‘‘the study of language from the point of view of users, especially of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction and the effects their use of language has on other participants in the act of communication’’ (as cited in Allami & Naeimi (2011), p. 240). One of the main factors in the process of communication is pragmatic competence. How interlocutors produce and perceive speech in diverse situations is an important issue as creating inappropriate utterances would cause misunderstanding and miscommunication (Sahragard & Javanmardi, 2011).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Studying pragmatics enables one to probe people’s intended meanings, their assumptions, their purposes or goals, and the kinds of actions (for example, requests) while they are interacting (Yule, 1996). Based on this assumption, successful communication in the target language implies crossing the boundaries of grammatical knowledge and achieving the competency in pragmatics. Accordingly, pragmatic competence necessitates comprehension and production of speech acts and their appropriateness in a given context. Study of pragmatic development in a second language, observes how nonnative speakers comprehend and produce action in the target language and considers how second language learners develop the ability to understand and perform action in a target language.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">The field of pragmatics has hosted a number of models by which the realm of pragmatic competence has been demarcated. Fraser (1983) for instance, defines pragmatic competence in terms of conveying an attitude. He describes communication as an interaction between speaker meaning and hearer-effect and is accomplished successfully when the speaker conveys his or her attitude to the hearer. He argues that this attitude can only be conveyed and interpreted through pragmatic competence. Faerch and Kasper (1984) proposed a model in which pragmatic competence was divided into two categories: declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge. The declarative knowledge includes six categories of knowledge: linguistic, socio-cultural, speech act, discourse, context, and knowledge of the world. The procedural knowledge, on the other hand, refers to the process of selecting and combining declarative knowledge from these categories. Bachman (1990) proposed another model that divides pragmatic competence into illocutionary and sociolinguistic competencies. The illocutionary competence has four main functions: ideational, manipulative, heuristic, and imaginative. The sociolinguistic competence, on the other hand, is divided into four categories: sensitivity to differences in dialect, sensitivity to register, sensitivity to naturalness, and knowledge of the culture.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Yekan, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">As the above mentioned models portrayed, pragmatic competence encompasses a complex set of inter-related factors, both linguistic and socio-cultural. It comes as no surprise then that this kind of knowledge is very difficult for non-native speakers to acquire. Language learners often fail to follow the socio-cultural rules that govern language behavior in the target language, and this has been referred to in the literature as pragmatic f</p>
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