Investigating Difficulties Encountered by Iraqi EFL learners in Their Opening and Closing a Conversation
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English language conversations, just like in any other languages, are governed by definite etiquettes for keeping the flow of the speech smoothly going on. Proper openings and closings ways of a conversation are good examples for having a conversation well-understood and tangible. University students, after a long period of studying English, are seen unable to (open) start or close(end) a conversation due to many reasons and difficulties they face in this regard .The present paper has tried to investigate these difficulties by selecting a sample from third year students at English department /University of Wassit to achieve the aims of the study by carrying out a diagnostic test. The results have showed that university students do face difficulties in opening and closing a conversation. These difficulties are attributed to many reasons regarding; the prescribed textbook, little exposure to authentic conversations, methods of teaching conversation, and the students' deficiencies in the speaking and unawareness of the structure of conversations .Downloads
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