EFL 교실에서 대화공동체의 역할에 관한 연구

Forming a speech community in the EFL classroom with reference to movie English

The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to suggest a systematic way to teach movie expressions effectively, and 2) to show how such expressions are connected as a network using the concept of speech community. In this paper a movie is regarded as something that is full of small speech communities. Four scenes from four different movies were selected. The common question in each scene was: “What happens between married couples or lovers if one of the spouses or lovers cheats?” Expressions in each scene were analyzed culturally. The results indicated different cultural patterns for men and women. The men first lied and then admitted their wrongdoing. When their partners responded angrily, however, they complained that they had been treated badly by their partners. The women were different They confessed their wrongdoing first and then apologized, accepting they were at fault or asking for a divorce while simultaneously making excuses for their actions., Movie expressions can be categorized according to these cultural patterns because people in the same community communicate in conventional ways. At first, movie expressions may seem to be unrelated but, analyzed through the concept of speech community, they can be seen to be directly or indirectly connected as a network.