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<p style="text-align:justify;">As textbooks are main sources for pragmatic&nbsp; development in EFL contexts, they are evaluated to see if they contain adequate inputs. Hence, the frequency of four ubiquitous speech acts (apology,&nbsp;complaint, refusal, request) across four business English textbooks (Business&nbsp;Basics, Business Result, Business Venture, Powerbase) was analyzed. The&nbsp;pragmatic analysis showed that requests and complaints were respectively the&nbsp;most and the least frequent speech acts distributed in Business Basics (124;&nbsp;3), Business Result (1068; 32), Business Venture (135; 8), and Powerbase (230;&nbsp;24). The highest frequency of speech acts was found in Business Result’s&nbsp;Advanced; Business Venture’s Version 1; and Powerbase’s Beginner levels. Due to&nbsp;the insufficient distribution of speech acts across the textbooks and within&nbsp;the levels, it is recommended that materials developers reconsider the adequacy&nbsp;of pragmatic input and draw on supplementary materials to compensate for such&nbsp;speech act realization inadequacy.</p>

Pragmatically-oriented Input in Business English Textbooks: The Case of Speech Act Realization

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