• Abstract (2)
• Table of Contents (3)
• List of Tables (5)
• List of Figures (6)
• List of Abbreviations (7)
• Appendices (8)
• Chapter One (9)
• Introduction (9)
  • 1.1. Background (10)
  • 1.2. Statement of the Problem (12)
  • 1.3. Significance of the Study (13)
  • 1.4. Purpose of the Study (14)
  • 1.5. Definition of Key Terms (14)
  • 1.6. Research Questions (16)
  • 1.7. Null Hypotheses (16)
  • 1.8. Limitations and Delimitations (17)
• Chapter Two (18)
• Review of the Related Literature (18)
  • 2.1. Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP) (19)
    • 2.1.1. ILP Instruction (21)
    • 2.1.2. ILP Instruction and Adults (24)
    • 2.1.3. ILP Instruction and Technology (26)
    • 2.1.4. ILP Instruction and Kids (29)
  • 2.2. Speech Acts (31)
    • 2.2.1. Speech Acts in ILP (33)
    • 2.2.2. Speech Acts Instruction (35)
    • 2.2.3. Types of Speech Acts (36)
  • 2.3. RALL (Robot Assisted Language Learning) (38)
    • 2.3.1. Robots (40)
    • 2.3.2. Educational Service Robots (42)
    • 2.3.3. Studies Done on RALL (45)
    • 2.3.4. RALL and ILP Instruction to EFL Kids (47)
• Chapter Three (49)
• Methodology (49)
  • 3.1 Introduction (50)
  • 3.2. Participants (50)
  • 3.3. Instruments (51)
    • 3.3.1. The Robot (51)
    • 3.3.2. The Choregraphe Program (54)
    • 3.3.3. Pretest and Post test (55)
  • 3.4. Data Collection Procedure (59)
  • 3.5. Data Analysis (64)
• Chapter Four (66)
• Results and Discussion (66)
  • 4. Results and Discussion (67)
  • 4.1. Results (67)
    • 4.1.1. Research Question One: (67)
    • 4.1.2. Research Question Two: (71)
    • 4.1.3. Research Question Three: (75)
  • 4.2. Discussion (79)
• Chapter Five (82)
• Conclusions (82)
  • 5.1. Conclusions (83)
  • 5.2. Implications (86)
  • 5.3. Further Research Questions (87)
  • References (89)
  • Appendices (106)
  • Appendix A: Kid’s speech acts pretest (106)
  • Appendix B: kids’ speech acts posttest (112)