THE EFFECT OF USING COLLIGATIONAL CORPUS-BASED INSTRUCTION ON ENHANCING THE PRAGMALINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE OF SPEECH ACT OF APOLOGY AMONG IRANIAN INTERMIDIATE EFL LEARNERS

This study investigated the effectiveness of colligational corpus-_bassed instruction on enhancing the pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of apology among intermidiate efl learners. The research question is whether providing students with on-line corpora through using colligational instruction have any effect on enhancing their pragmalinguistic knowledge of speech act of request. A total sum of sixty subjects, two groups, from institutions in mazandaran province participated in the study. The subjects were all intermidiated-level students, consisted of thirty in each group. The purpose was to observe any probable progress in learner's speech act using abilityfrom the beginning to the end of the program. The subjects took a standard opt test to demonstrate their English profecieny. Then they were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and copntrol group. An mdct pre-test was administered in each group to test their ability and knowledge in using speech act of apology. After fifteen session of treatment< a posttest of mdct was administered. The experimental group received corpus-based instruction through colligational practices while the control group practiced learning the same speech act through traditional and old methods of learning acts like textbooks, audios, videos and, etc. the data were analysed using paired and independent sample t-test. in order to increase the validity of the results, the researcher used observation and interveiw, too. The results have shown how the quality of speech act learning can improve by using corpus-based instruction.