This study investigates the strategies and functions of speech acts of apology by Egyptian English foreign language (EFL) university students. This study is conducted on male and female undergraduate students of the Faculty of Arts in South Valley University.

Generally, people apologize differently depending on the situation and their gender. This study attempts to discover the methods for expressing apology by highlighting the common expressions that are used by Egyptian undergraduate students in South Valley University. It also examines whether gender can affect the use of apology responses or not. The data will be analyzed based on the responses of the students of Faulty of Arts through a questionnaire, from a pragmatic point of view.
Communication Language seems to be substantial in pragmatics and sociolinguistics. Language, as the main way of communication among humans, plays a critical role in understanding and expressing the world around us and beyond. Apology appears to be the most commonly used speech act in everyday life. This kind of speech act seems to be culturally influenced, providing several ways for comparing and contrasting different languages on a cultural basis, because every society has its own customs that one should apologize for violating