Is the Use of Okay Really OK? : Pragmalinguistic Failure in L2 Learners’ Production of Okay

• 영문명: Is the Use of Okay Really OK? : Pragmalinguistic Failure in L2 Learners’ Production of Okay
• 발행기관: 팬코리아영어교육학회
• 저자명: Woo-hyun Jung
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제20권 2호, 1~23쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.06.30

영문 초록

  This study attempts to investigate the production of okay by Korean EFL learners, with special attention to pragmatic deviation. To this end, data were collected from university students, using a discourse completion task. The results showed that the learners’ problems with the production of okay were pragmalinguistic in nature, exhibiting deviations from actual patterns of native speakers: They produced okay in situations where native speakers prefer the speech acts of thanking, apologizing, sympathizing, hesitating, soothing, and leave-taking. This study also revealed that there is a hierarchy of naturalness in learners’ production of okay, indicating that some are more appropriate than others in terms of politeness and formality. On the basis of the results, pedagogical implications are provided, and suggestions are made for enhancing learners’ pragmatic competence.

목차

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION
Ⅱ. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
Ⅲ. METHOD
Ⅳ. RESULTS
Ⅴ. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
APPENDIX

키워드

interlanguage pragmatics pragmatic competence discourse analysis discourse particle okay