Interlanguage Pragmatics Development in Complaint Responses Used by Indonesian EFL Learners

Abstract

Pragmatics development becomes a major process to control learners EFL competences. Their length of time learning the target languages strongly contributes their developmental pragmatics competence and performance. Giving response to complainers, sometimes become important in case of showing respect to the complainers. It also can be face saving strategies used by complainee, to save their face from unfavorable responsibility toward unpleasant action for the complainers. This research aims to investigate the interlanguage pragmatics development in complaint responses used by Indonesian EFL learners. Oral Discourse Completion Tasks (ODCT) was used as the instrument in collecting the data. By the used of Cross sectional approach, the writer recruited 30 EFL learners in different length of time study to be respondents. The finding discovered that the learners interlanguage pragmatics development significantly improves, their pragmalinguistics forms also develop to be more complex over the length of time study. Learners with different time EFL study tended to induce their uses of politeness much more frequently than impoliteness.