Reframing Face and Politeness in Korean EFL Learner Interaction

ISBN-13: 9786139458615 / Angielski

Hyong Joseph Chon

Opis

This research investigates Korean learner interaction involving requests and refusals. The purpose of the study was to replicate an earlier study (Brown, 2010) conducted with western learners learning Korean and their difficulties with in the target language due to differences in the notions of face and politeness. The conclusions from that study indicated framing in the social frame of the target language was needed to correct the unstable nature of face and politeness in L2 - L1 interaction. This study investigates those findings in reverse with Korean learners of English.This study is exploratory in nature with discourse completion tasks (DCT) and discourse-perceptions Likert test, and interviews to investigate language used in discourse settings related to requests and refusals. Previous studies have focused on methods and treatments related to sociocultural and authentic interactions to help learners reframe. This present study focuses on the meaning of frame and how politeness affects face for the KEFL learner to reframe in the new target language.

O autorze

Chon, Hyong Joseph
H.J.Chon holds a BS in Education from UMD, a MA in Education from UOPX and a PhD in English Education from Chonnam National University. His research interests include Pragmatics & Politeness, Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Hermeneutics. Currently, he is working as a Career Development Center Director in Woosong University, S.Korea.