Grammatical Competency or Pragmatic Competency : An Examination of the Language Features Related to Proficiency Scores in Oral Interviews

• 발행기관: 팬코리아영어교육학회(구 영남영어교육학회)
• 저자명: Hye Kyeng Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제28권 3호, 19~38쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.09.30

영문 초록

The present study aimed to examine the impacts of two measures of language competency, grammatical and pragmatic competency, on proficiency scores in oral interviews. The participants of this study were 23 university students from South Korea and China. For the data collection, a semi-structured oral interview was administered to evaluate their oral English proficiency, and each student’s recorded interviews were evaluated again in terms of grammatical competency and pragmatic competency respectively, based on the provided rubrics. Further, another set of semi-structured interview was conducted to investigate what the test administrators considered to constitute the main features of oral proficiency. These scores were then subjected to a Pearson correlation to identify any relationship between proficiency scores and grammatical competency scores, as well as between proficiency scores and pragmatic competency scores. The results of this study illustrated that both grammatical and pragmatic competency scores showed high correlations with oral proficiency scores. However, pragmatic competency showed a higher correlation than grammatical competency, and a medium effect size was found between two correlation values. The findings of this study imply the importance of pragmatic competency in communication and necessity of instruction targeted at to enhancing students’ pragmatic competency in second language (L2) teaching.

목차

Abstract

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION

Ⅱ. LITERATURE REVIEW

Ⅲ. METHODOLOGY

Ⅳ. RESULTS

Ⅴ. DISCUSSION

Ⅵ. CONCLUSIONS

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키워드

pragmatic competency grammatical competency proficiency score correlation oral interviews semi-structured interviews