Poem-based soflp’s inculcation: A way of improving efl students’ pragmatic competence

Abstract

The facts disclosed that Indonesian English Department (ED) students have difficulty disassembling the SIM and SPOSS in a practical sense. This happens because the SofLP as a fundamental theory and poem as the authentic learning medium to dismantle the Speaker’s Intended Meaning (SIM) and Speaker’s Purpose-Oriented Speech Situation (SPOSS) have not yet fully become the most important parts in the Indonesian ELT program. The researcher, therefore, proposed such a title to practically bridge the students’ critical quandaries in interpreting the SIM and SPOSS. This was a qualitative method whose complete participation, field-notes, interviews, and iterative model and the 1984 Miles and Huberman Interactive model were the techniques of collecting and analysi ng the data respectively. The principal results practically signified that the poem-based SofLP’s inculcation can better improve the Indonesian ED students’ pragmatic competence, HOTs (cognitive process and knowledge domains), linguistic intelligence and language skills. More importantly, it can help the ED students to detect countless fake news in various online media. Subsequently, through the poem, the pragmatic language teacher is encouraged to exploit the instructional strategies to establish and develop the students’ space practice, retrieval practises, elaboration, and collaboration. In conclusion, even though it seems weird, the poem can critically serve as the learning media assisting the students to enhance the pragmatic competence and other related critical skills of English.