**Eman Kh. Jasim in an academic staff member in the College of Education/Ibn Al Haitham/ University of Baghdad **
M.A in English Language and Linguistics , University of Baghdad, 2015 currently serving as a lecturer in the Department of Biology /College of Education /Ibn al Haitham / University of Baghdad
Responsible for teaching English language to undergraduate students Supervising students' projects
Pragmatics, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Language and Communication, English Language Teaching
English Linguistics (Pragmatics)
Teaching English Conversation , Grammar, and Compsition to undergaduate students
Supervised undergraduate research projects
With the advancement of technology ,the study of cross-cultural communication via on line has become an important and researchable topic in linguistic theory and its applications.The aims of this study are two- fold (a) exploring the influence of cultural diversity on on-line interaction between American native speakers (NSs) and Iraqi non-native speakers (NNSs) of English which, together with other factors might potentially lead to what Thomas(1983) calls "pragmatic failure" (PF), a main cause of communication breakdowns and (b) specifying which type of PF occurs more frequently between the two groups along with the reasons behind such failures. To achieve these objectives , a number of online chats conducted between
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