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    Investigating the Correlation between EFL Learners’ Levels of Emotional Intelligence and their Pragmatic Competence of Apology Speech Act Realization. Case of Master Two Students at M’sila University
    (2020-06) Salaheddine SARAOUI, Loubna DILMI
    The recent years witnessed a remarkable shift in the field of applied pragmatics and SLA research towards cognitive-psychological concepts and phenomena. The present study, therefore, attempts to investigate the correlation between Algerian EFL learners’ levels of emotional intelligence and their pragmatic competence of apology speech act realization at M’sila University. The main aim of this study is to determine the nature of the relationship between the study variables. In addition, the study outlines the frequency of the semantic formulas of apology speech act of the participants, and their levels of emotional intelligence. Furthermore, the study looks into teachers’ beliefs and attitudes about the instruction of pragmatics in oral expression classes, and the relation between emotional intelligence and pragmatic competence. In order to achieve the objectives of this study, the mixed research method design incorporating both correlational and descriptive methods was used. First, for the correlational research, the researchers opted for an oral discourse completion task (ODCT) and Schutte Self- report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) for a sample of 30 EFL students at M’sila University to generate the necessary data that were processed and analyzed through SPSS version 25. The study employed a questionnaire, to teachers of oral expression module, for the descriptive part of the research. The findings revealed an existing statistically significant moderate positive correlation with 0,437* value at the significance level p=0.05. Moreover, the teachers indicated the importance of both explicit and implicit instruction of pragmatics as well as the high importance of emotional intelligence in developing pragmatic competence. Therefore, this study sheds light on the significance of emotional intelligence on pragmatic competence of apology speech act production, it raises both teachers and students’ awareness about this finding, and it calls for the incorporation of emotional intelligence and its strategies in instructing apology speech act.