인터뷰 면접자 담화에 나타난 ‘상호작용 활성화’ 발화 연구

Research of Interviewers’s Accommodation in Oral Proficiency Interview

Bilingual Research The aim of this study is to examine the interview’s discourse during oral proficiency interviews to reveal the interviewer’s influence on invigorating the dialogue. The interview has been utilized as vehicle for speaking evaluation for an antiquated time. However, it has been pointed out that this evaluation method has a limit in inferring the candidate’s communicative competence. By analyzing the interviewer’s accommodation, this paper will look at the limitation further revealing the influence of the interviewer during the oral proficiency interview. Therefore, this study evaluates the result of oral proficiency interview administered by Korea language institute in Korea. Three interviewer discourse samples from each beginner and advanced levels, accordingly, were examined and then corresponded to Lazaraton’s suggested eight interlocutors’ support types. This results revealed whether the interviewer’s interactive oral proficiency was maintaining the interview and if it was successful in eliciting the candidate’s oral performance. However, it was discovered that the interviewer’s evaluation and similar discourse was rather suppressing the candidate’s oral performance.