Apology strategies used by Sudanese EFL learners

Abstract

Many studies have focused on linguistic politeness mainly apology Most of them were conducted on ESL learners and few of them on EFL learners mainly in the Middle East and the Sudan. This study is an attempt to bridge the gap on this area of study and to outline the most commonly used apology strategies by Sudanese EFL learners. Multiple Choice Discourse Completion Test (MDCT) is used as a tool for collecting data, where the test taker is required to choose the correct response (the key) from several given options. The stem and distractors include fifteen different scenarios and six alternatives. Sixty informants have been randomly selected from 2015-016 ,4th and 3rd year English language students at Education College at Sudan university of Science and Technology .To be more representative, the data was analyzed using the SPSS software. After analyzing the data the researcher has found out that most of the Sudanese EFL learners use apology strategies. Most of the Sudanese EFL learners prefer to use offer of repair as an apology strategy. More studies could be done to find out why do Sudanese EFL learners prefer to use (an offer of repair) as an apology strategy.