This thesis focuses on directive speech acts for the education of second language learners of Korean. For this study, an analysis was made of directive speech act sentence patterns presented in Korean teaching aids. Further supported by an investigati...
This thesis focuses on directive speech acts for the education of second language learners of Korean. For this study, an analysis was made of directive speech act sentence patterns presented in Korean teaching aids. Further supported by an investigation of the speech acts of native Korean speakers and foreign language learners of Korean, a method of teaching directive speech acts is proposed.
Sections 1 and 2 examine the need for speech act education and the theories of speech acts. Searle and Hindelang's theories of directive speech acts are examined and the importance of speech act education is recognized through a consideration of speech acts and their closely related speech functions. Classification criteria based on the theory of directive speech acts allows directive speech acts to be further subdivided into the classes of orders, recommendations, demands, requests, proposals and suggestions.
In section 3, directive speech act sentence patterns found in Korean teaching aids and corpus are analyzed. The Korean teaching materials were analyzed separately at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels while the analysis of the corpus material identified a wider variety of directive speech act sentence patterns. The sentence patterns from the Korean teaching materials were then sorted according to the classification criteria discussed in section 2.
The speech acts of native Korean speakers and non-native language learners of Korean are analyzed in section 4. To extract the different aspects of native speakers' speech acts, 47 episodes of three different Korean dramatic TV shows, “The World That They Live In” <그들이 사는 세상>, “My name is Kim Sam Soon” <내 이름은 김삼순>, and “Coffee Prince Number 1” <커피프린스 1호점> were analyzed. In order to investigate the aspects of non-native Korean learners' speech acts, four experimental scenarios were presented and the produced students' speech acts were recorded and transcribed. From these two kinds of analysis, examples of the mistakes made in second language learners' speech acts were extracted.
Finally, section 5 draws conclusions from the analyses of speech acts made in sections 3 and 4, and suggests a method of teaching directive speech acts. Presenting non-native language learners with a variety of speech act scenarios educates learners by having them produce speech acts more naturally in appropriate situations. Directive speech act teaching methods are divided into plans that can be accomplished at each level (beginner, intermediate, advanced) are presented.
Speech act education is an important part of helping second language learners become able to communicate appropriately in realistic situations. Speech act education helps second language learners develop their communication comprehension and their understanding of rules existing in language. A language and its culture can be well understood through speech act education but further research is needed to further develop effective methods of assisting communication comprehension.