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Ameen Saliman Abdullahi
Al-Hikmah Univeristy, Ilorin, Kwara State
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Pragmatic Failure in EFL Learners’ Emails and AI Grammar Tools Feedback Nur Ifadloh; Ameen Saliman Abdullahi; Rani Aryanti Rukmana
DUTIES: Education and Humanities International Journal Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): DUTIES: Education and Humanities International Journal
Publisher : CV. Akademi Merdeka

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.70152/duties.v1i2.221

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This study investigates the pragmatic failures found in EFL learners’ academic email communication and evaluates the extent to which AI grammar tools can detect and address such failures. Drawing on theories of interlanguage pragmatics and politeness, the research identifies recurring issues in the realization of requests, apologies, and formal politeness—where learners often produce grammatically correct yet pragmatically inappropriate messages. These failures commonly stem from first-language pragmatic transfer and a lack of explicit instruction in target language norms. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, the study analyzed a corpus of 640 elicited emails from 80 EFL university students and assessed feedback from Grammarly, Quillbot, and ChatGPT using comparative qualitative and quantitative analysis. While the tools effectively corrected surface-level errors, they fell short in addressing context-sensitive pragmatic nuances such as indirectness, tone, and formality. The findings underscore the distinction between linguistic and pragmatic competence, highlight the limitations of current AI tools in fostering pragmatic awareness, and emphasize the need for explicit, context-rich instruction. This study contributes to a more integrated understanding of how human expertise and AI technologies can collaboratively support pragmatic development in digital language learning environments.
Co-Authors Nur Ifadloh Rani Aryanti Rukmana