Verbal Feedback in EFL Classrooms: A Pragmatic Analysis

The pragmatic issue is crucial in classrooms, especially those ones that teach English as a foreign language. Teachers' language with students in the classroom has a considerable role on learning. It facilitates and effects the teaching as well as the learning process. This research endeavors to probe into some classrooms to study teacher's talk focusing on the feedback move. Interactive exchanges in classrooms seem to be the desired style within the realm of the communicative paradigm.

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Wafaa S. M. Al-Saate is a Ph.D. candidate of English language and linguistics. She is an instructor at the University of Baghdad. She published some papers in linguistic studies. Abdullatif A. Al-Jumaily is an emeritus professor of English language and linguistics. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from from University of Edinburgh.