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ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 340-347, March 2013 © 2013 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/jltr.4.2.340-347 Different Strategies of Compliment Responses Used by Iranian EFL Students and Australian English Speakers Reza Mohajernia Department of Applied Linguistics, Azad University, Isfahan, Iran Hassan Solimani Department of Applied Linguistics, Payame Noor University, 19395-3697, Tehran, Iran Abstract—The advanced Iranian EFL students are capable of producing grammatically correct sentences, but they have a lot of gaps, lack of variety and form-function clashes in communication. Therefore, this pragmatic failure may specially be traced in the areas of speech acts. This paper investigates to explore the differences between the strategies of responses to compliments given by Iranian EFL students compared with Australian English speakers in terms of socio-cultural patterns. In line with the nature of the present research, a cross- cultural one, 30 Australian English speakers and 30 Iranian EFL students were given a questionnaire consisting of two parts, each of which was composed of 8 open-ended questions. Based on the Chi- square inferential statistics the collected data were analyzed and interpreted and the results were obtained. The overall results suggested that some strategies of Compliment Responses (CRs) are cultural-specific like request interpretation Qabel-Nadare (I am glad to give it to you as a gift) in Iranian culture and that there were various strategies of CRs which