The present study aimed to investigate the effect of corrective feedbacks on Iranian EFL learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development in the case of invitation acceptance and declination. To do so, three intact experimental groups: recast group (N = 13), metalinguistic group (N = 17) and clarification request group (N = 12) were selected from an English institute based on convenience sampling. Before the treatment, three groups participated in a dialogic extended discourse as pretest. The dialogues of invitation in the case of both acceptance and declination were taken from Top Notch, American English File, English Result, and Four Corners books. For scoring learners’ performance, teacher used two checklists of pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic knowledge based on the 5-item Likert-scale ranging from inappropriate to most appropriate were used. The treatment sessions were held three times a week and each session took 60 minutes, for a total of a month. The results reveal that corrective feedback had significant effect on ILP development; moreover, the metalinguistic group outperformed the recast and clarification request groups. Hence, metalinguistic corrective feedback is more effective than recast and clarification corrective feedbacks regarding Iranian EFL learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development in the case of invitation acceptance and declination.
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