EFL Learners’ Production of Implicit Compliments

• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: Dae-Min Kang
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』영어어문교육 제14권 제4호, 1~24쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.12.30

영문 초록

In contrast to explicit compliments, only very few studies have addressed the pedagogical aspects of teaching implicit compliments in English to EFL learners. The present study, designed to help fill the gap, compared Korean EFL learners' pragmatic ability to produce implicit compliments with that to produce explicit compliments and examined proficiency dependent differences in their ability to produce implicit and explicit compliments, as well as two types of implicit compliments. A total of 45 participants, assigned to low, intermediate, and high proficiency groups, performed a pragmatic production task and took part in a post-task interview. Results showed that EFL learners performed significantly worse in producing implicit compliments than in producing explicit compliments, which was attributed to the unformulaic nature of implicit compliments. Concerning the impact of proficiency on EFL learners' ability to produce implicit compliments, it was importantly found that significant differences existed between any two groups of the three proficiency groups. Further, proficiency was revealed to differently affect EFL learners' production of two types of implicit compliments. In terms of pedagogical implications, the study suggests that the explicit teaching of implicit compliments to EFL learners taking into account proficiency levels should be seriously discussed.

목차

I. INTRODUCTION

II. LITERATURE REVIEW

III. METHOD

IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

V. CONCLUSION

ABSTRACT

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키워드

implicit compliments explicit compliments pragmatic ability EFL learners EFL proficiency levels