A Study on the Implementation Patterns of Request Speech Acts by Korean Learners in Spoken Discourse.

Abstract

There are relatively many researches on request speech acts of the various fields of Korean education, but many of them employed a questionnaire-type discourse completion test for data collection and thus provided no information on how Korean learners actually made request speech acts in a spoken language environment. Although a discourse completion test is useful for examining the patterns and strategies of using polite expressions by many learners according to their social relationships, it is difficult to get an overall picture of how the primary and auxiliary speech acts are performed in request speech acts with such a test. It is also difficult to discuss whether request expressions learned by many learners can be put to immediate use in a spoken language situation with a discourse completion test since it is a writing task in many cases. This study thus set out to examine how request expressions and strategies learned in the classroom were utilized and whether there would be differences in expressions and strategies according to the content of request by analyzing the materials of learners who performed a task of leaving a message by phone in order to supplement the lacking aspects of a discourse completion test suggested in previous discussions.(Dong-A University)