摘要：It is about three decades that the term communicative competence has been utilized in EFL literatures. Pragmatic knowledge is one of the main aspects of the communicative competence. This study intended to investigate the relationship between Iranian EFL students’ language proficiency and their cross-cultural speech act knowledge. To this end, 50 EFL students from Islamic Azad university of Tehran were selected through quota sampling. The instruments utilized in this study were IELTS test and Discourse Completion Task (DCT) test. The Pearson Correlation was utilized to compare the scores obtained from the students’ language proficiency and their scores of cross cultural speech act knowledge. As the results of this study showed, there was a negative correlation between students’ scores in language proficiency and their scores of cross cultural speech act knowledge.
其他摘要：It is about three decades that the term communicative competence has been utilized in EFL literatures. Pragmatic knowledge is one of the main aspects of the communicative competence. This study intended to investigate the relationship between Iranian EFL students’ language proficiency and their cross-cultural speech act knowledge. To this end, 50 EFL students from Islamic Azad university of Tehran were selected through quota sampling. The instruments utilized in this study were IELTS test and Discourse Completion Task (DCT) test. The Pearson Correlation was utilized to compare the scores obtained from the students’ language proficiency and their scores of cross cultural speech act knowledge. As the results of this study showed, there was a negative correlation between students’ scores in language proficiency and their scores of cross cultural speech act knowledge.
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