Enhancing Efl college students’ Language proficiency :Through Sociolinguistic Competence

Abstract

The aim of   this study is to shed the light on  sociolinguistic  competence  and  to  identify the EFL college students knowledge of it in a way to support their target  language proficiency. This research is a descriptive one where a sample of (30) students at the college of Education /IbnRushd, University of Baghdad  for the academic year 2014-2015 are randomly chosen from fourth year classes to respond to the questionnaire constructed by the researcher to identify the college students’ knowledge of sociolinguistic competence. The questionnaire was validated by being reviewed and adjusted according to the remarks provided by a number of experts in the field. The students’ responses have been statistically analyzed and rejected positively the null hypothesis to capture the importance of students’ knowledge of sociolinguistic competence in  favour of  better language proficiency on the students part.