This study investigates the effects of the learning environment and the indirectness on the recognition and production of conventional expressions in L2 pragmatics. It adopts a narrow focus to investigate how learners’ recognition of conventional ex...
This study investigates the effects of the learning environment and the indirectness on the recognition and production of conventional expressions in L2 pragmatics. It adopts a narrow focus to investigate how learners’ recognition of conventional expressions relates to their use of the same expressions in written production tasks.
To test the recognition and production of conventional expressions, this study used multilevel Vocabulary Knowledge Scale(VSK; Wesche &Paribakht, 1996; Bardovi-Harlig, 2010), an instrument that combines self- and performance items to elicit both self-perceived and demonstrated knowledge of specific words (in this task, conventional expressions).
The recognition tasks are supplemented by production tasks. The recognition and production task of 16 items was administered using a 5-way scale in which learners indicated a level of recognition for each expression by circling the most descriptive rating.
In total, 40 advanced learners in Thailand and Korea completed the tasks. Half of them were in Korean as a second language group (KSL) and half of them were in Korean as a foreign language group (KFL).
First, it was found that learners with exposure to the KSL environment scored higher than KFL learners without such exposure on recognition of conventional expressions.
Results have shown that learners less readily recognized expressions which had a high level of indirectness rather than expressions which had a low level of indirectness. Results also ed that learners more easily recognized literal meanings than idiomatic ones.
When the results from the recognition and production tasks were compared, the KSL learners scored much higher than KFL learners. Especially, learners scored lower on the recognition and production of expressions with high level of indirectness than on the recognition and production of low level ones.
These results suggest that the experience in a target-language environment led to significantly better performance on recognition and production of conventional expressions and indirectness of conventional expression and is one of the factors that make learners recognize and produce it with or without ease.
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