Innovation in Language Learning

The major concern of this study is to investigate the type of difficulties faced by EFL Iraqi  students in their quest for the most appropriate utterance to express their ideas. One of the problems that face the language learners is how they can convey their thoughts with more contextual effects and with least mental effort. The learners have to be competent in using the language in real-life situations outside the classroom. The teachers must have the ability to convey the language as closely to the native speaker's as possible by being aware of the necessity of Optimal Relevance since the learners are not in direct contact with native speakers. The sample of the study is composed of two main groups, each of which consists of (9) students. The first group represents fourth year Iraqi college students, namely, those of College of Education – English Department, and the second group represents MA students, namely, those of  University of Baghdad - College of Education –English Department. The test is composed of 20 questions. Actually, we have different situations which are designed to focus on different aspects in learning/acquiring English. Each question has three alternatives, one of them is the optimal one, the other two choices are relatively relevant to the given information of the situation, but they may have irrelevant or inappropriate information to the given situation.
The 5th test shows that MA students and BA students are equal in their relevant answers. Both reach to the rate of 22% out of all the answers.
The result shows that Learners' mother tongue, in general (both groups), has an impact on giving the correct answer.

Keywords: Optimal Relevance, Dialogue;