한국어 학습자의 거절 화행 발달 연구

A Study on the Development of Refusal Speech Acts among Korean Language Learners: With a Focus on a Longitudinal Case Study of Strategy Usage

The purpose of this study is to examine the changes an individual learner undergoes over the course of developing the knowledge of refusal speech acts. To this end, we observed three students, who all have different learning purposes, attitudes and social participation, performing refusal roles in six situations of invitation and requests over five sessions in a ten-month period. The results indicated that students showed individually unique development patterns. First, in an invitational situation, student 1, who had much social contact with peers, showed a progressive improvement of strategy, expanding the form-function-context mappings over time. Second, student 2 was highly conscious of politeness but lacked social participation and pragma-linguistic knowledge. As a result, student 2 did not follow the normal course of strategy improvement overall. Third, due to an introverted and passive personality and a grammar-centered learning attitude, the politeness strategy was shown only near the end of the ten-month period in student 3. The student also exhibited fluidity in response to situational contexts, equivocating between progress and regression.