جۆری توێژینه‌وه‌ : Original Article

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garmian university ,college of language and human sciences ,English department, Kurdistan, Iraq

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Humor brings people together under shared laughter. However, since humor requires highly sensitive linguistic and cultural competence, expressing and appreciating humor is often a challenge in cross-cultural communication. What is considered as funny may differ across cultures. This paper discusses the ability of the EFL to distinguish humorous and unhumorous texts ,and more specifically investigates the types  of humor in the language classroom. At the outset of the paper, some theoretical backgrounds have been provided to account the use of humor and its styles ,types and theories . To achieve the aims of the study the collected data of the test which has been applied on a sample of EFl university students , the data have been analyzed by using SPSS . The results have shown that the subjects faces difficulty in the recognition of humouros text generally and its types particularly. since lexical ambiguity is the core of language - based jokes, this paper examines and reviews this ambiguity and the humorous effect presented by humor .  Students' errors can be attributed to certain factors among which the lack of using English humor in real life situation in communicative ways and the deficiency of focusing on sense of humor in literature subjects curricula  during their university study .

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