A Study of Alerter Strategy of Pragmatic Competence on Request in EFL College Learners

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to investigate pragmatic competence on request for Korean college learners. 75 college students were divided into two groups by genders: male(39) and female(36). Six DCT items on request were provided for the students and asked to write down the answers in each situation. Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP) coding scheme (Blum-Kulka, House, & Kasper, 1989) was used for written responses of request sequences. This study focused on the use of alerters in three speech units on request: alerters, head act, and supportive moves. Some strategies were heavily skewed to ‘attention getter’ and ‘title/role.’ A number of learners in both genders used ‘attention getter’ as their main strategies among eight alerters, and ‘title/role’ as a higher rate. They also made use of minor alerter strategies such as ‘surname,’ ‘first name,’ and ‘endearment term,’ though they showed somewhat different use in each gender. However, there was no occurrence in three alerters: ‘nickname,’ ‘offensive term,’ and ‘pronoun.’ Other alerter strategies were different depending on situations and genders. The results imply that students have drawback in the appropriate use of pragmatic abilities. Teachers in EFL classroom should teach various types of alerter strategies on request and reflect clear sociocultural factors in speech acts.

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