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This article's main aim was to discuss the place of Pragmatics in EFL classrooms. Pragmatics is one of the branches of linguistics concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker and interpreted by a listener. Pragmatics has relatively recently become the focuses of attention in language studies. On the other hand, it is important to remember that pragmatics components have been used in language teaching contexts in recent years, syllabus design by language teachers worldwide. Many research works have been done by many language researchers in different aspects of pragmatics competence. Language teachers use pragmatics as a functional approach in the language classroom. However, pragmatics follows the general principles for men when they communicate with others. Pragmatics study sentences not in isolation but regarding contexts of situations, and it is defined as the interaction between a sequence of language and the real-world situation in which it is used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The collection of this systematic article was an attempt to show a survey of current activities in the field of error analysis in English language from 2012 to 2018 in Iran. In the country, English is being taught as Foreign Language from middle school. Khansir and Gholami Dashti (2014) mentioned that English accepted as language to pass in the examination. However, English system in this country often put on formal accuracy and teachers focus on the teaching of English grammar in their classes. Error analysis approach has been a widely discussed topic for more than 60 years over the world. However, all the findings of this paper from previous research works on error analysis can be good reasons in order to guide and help reduce such errors in the written language of Iranian students in EFL setting and the results of this work can also be used to as a guide for English learners over the world. This article identifies and presents the major reasons leading to the English written errors among the Iranian learners. Finally, it reports the effective strategies and suggestions for helping the students to improve their English language. The researchers of this study studied 178 papers in this process and 37 of the papers were relevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this research paper is to examine Study of English Clauses Errors in Syntactic Structure of Iranian Students at Bushehr Payam Noor University in Bushehr city. The role of error analysis in language teaching is always vital. Error analysis as one of applied linguistics subjects has been discussed among language teachers, syllabus designers, linguistics more than fifty years. They have recognized that it can be used as one of the learning strategies in helping to language teachers and learners in acquiring their target language. In this research work, 30 Iranian EFL students in the age range of 20 to 27 at under graduate level were participated. Outcome of this research paper showed that the number of errors of Iranian under-graduate students in the clause structure test was 594. The results of this article indicated that the learners need sufficient exercises to be conducted in the classroom in order to increase their knowledge of English clauses and reduce their errors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]