Shiraz University Teaching English as a Second Language Quarterly 2981-1546 34 1 2015 05 22 Raising EFL Learners' Pragmatic Awareness of Intercultural Rhetoric in Writing افزایش آگاهی کاربردشناختی زبان‌آموزان نسبت به ساختارهای بین فرهنگی بلاغت در نگارش 115 143 3458 10.22099/jtls.2015.3458 EN Andisheh Saniei ELT Department, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Parviz Birjandi ELT Department, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh ELT Department, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran Majid Nemati ELT Department, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2015 01 22 The purpose of the present study was to explore the effectiveness of raising Iranian learners’ pragmatic awareness of intercultural rhetoric in enhancing their L2 writing ability, complexity, and accuracy. To this end, two 25-member groups of EFL learners who were taking Basic Writing course at Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch, were selected based on their performance on a language proficiency test (PET). They were assigned as one control and one experimental group and took a validated, researcher-made pretest/posttest (with the reliability of 0.73) at the outset of the study. The experimental group received the explicit instruction of the teacher on IR followed by a task related to the content of the instruction while the control group’s practice in writing was limited to doing the exercises in their course book without receiving the explicit instruction on IR.Following the termination of the nine-session treatment, the posttest was administered and the collected data underwent data analysis. The results indicated that pragmatic awareness of IR in writing was significantly effective in improving the Iranian EFL learners' writing ability as well as the accuracy of their written output. However, no significant influence of rhetorical awareness raising on learners’ writing complexity was investigated in this study. https://tesl.shirazu.ac.ir/article_3458_69c1db11fad77e24f32b01741e2d477f.pdf