중학교 2학년 영어 교과서 대화문 분석과 학습 영향 연구 - 요청과 거절 -

Abstract

This study aims 1) to compare the frequency of request and refusal expressions in dialogs in the second grade middle school English textbooks in Korea with those of native English speakers, and 2) to identify the frequency of request and refusal expressions used by the middle school Korean students of English. For the analysis of the textbooks, various types of request patterns which are identified by Gibbs (1981) and refusal patterns which are verified by Beebe, Takahashi and Uliss-Weltz (1985) are used as referential tools. Five different textbooks were chosen and analysed. A total of 124 students took part in a questionnaire survey asking the use of request and refusal expressions. The major findings of the study are as follows. First, not all of the thirteen types of request expressions that English native speakers often use were presented throughout the textbooks analysed. The order of the frequency in the request types between the textbooks and Gibbs