The aims of this study were to compare the effects of requests in dialogs in second grade English textbooks of middle school in Korea and Japan, and investigate the usuage and frequency of requests in each textbooks. To examine the effectiveness and authenticity of textbooks, speech acts of request will be compared by the criteria of Trosborg(1995). And also, this study described the similarities and differences in speech acts of request between Korean and Japanese textbooks. Under the renewed 7th curriculum, the main objective of English education in Korea is to develop student's communicative competence which includes fluency and accuracy. Pragmatic competence is one of the main aspects of communicative competence, and it affects to the ability of proper communication. But EFL learners, for example Korean and Japanese students, have limited chances to be exposed to pragmatic English usuages. In this manner, English textbooks are one of the most significant learning channels to encourage student's pragmatic competence. Therefore English textbooks must be developed as authentic resources. The results of this study revealed that Korean middle school English textbooks are better than Japanese in speech acts of request. Korean textbooks represented its strategies and ratio-components of requests in a more similar way to native speakers of English than Japanese. But both of them are tended to prefer more direct speech act than those of native speakers of English. Furthermore, politeness and directness must be carefully considered when students learn the speech act theory. Both textbooks are not fully expressed individual perspectives neither of speaker nor of hearer. So students needed to learn properly how to distinguish the language according to the relations of the speaker and hearer. Upon these findings, students must be aware of the differences between Korean (or Japanese) and English in request realization to develop their communicative competence in English. So it is suggested that teachers understand the weakness of Korean textbooks, and provide more authentic speech acts. Through appropriate information, students will improve their actual pragmatic competence in EFL circumstances. ，免费韩语论文，韩语论文网站 |
