Common Problems Learning English Language Function Among Bangladeshi Learners of English, and Outline Teaching Implications

Abstract

This research aims to discover the problems Bangladeshi English language learners face due to language functions while learning the English language and explore probable solutions. To reach the goal, I used a structured small-scale interview with open-ended questions to draw a picture of real-life situational language functions. The role-play activity displays some situations of greetings, refusal, request, advice, and exclamation. The interview shows how Bangladeshi people act or express their feeling in the aforementioned particular situations. It also exhibits the difference between Bangla and English language functions through a contrastive analysis. From the analysis, it is found that Bangladeshi EFL Learners have some pragmatic problems while using different types of language functions like greetings, refusals, requests, advice, and exclamations, etc. To improve their skills in these fields, some teaching techniques and certain English language cultures and sentence structures can be introduced in the curriculum.