The pragmatic resistance of Chinese learners of Korean

This study examines pragmatic resistance as a choice made by Chinese learners of Korean and the factors that contribute to this choice. Data were collected from 46 upper-intermediate language through three different tools, including Discourse Completion Tasks, metapragmatic questionnaires, retrospective interviews. Findings showed participants chose resist native norms in over 40% their answers either adhering or diverging both norms. Their decision was affected four main factors, namely learners' personalities, multilingual identities, ongoing life histories, relational affordances. These findings indicated native-speaker norms, which are still employed model official proficiency tests, no longer default preference learners. thus suggests revising applicability teaching assessment.