A Study of Compliments across Cultures: The Effect of Sociolinguistic Transfer on EFL Learners
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The purpose of this research was to examine how Korean and Japanese EFL learners’ speech act of compliment is transferred from their native cultures when they are interacting in English, and to investigate if the two cultural groups display different or similar strategies in giving and responding compliment. The subjects were 20 intermediate-level Korean and Japanese university students, who participate in KWCCDL program. Based on the English chatting data between Korean and Japanese EFL learners, the study demonstrated the sociolinguistic transfer phenomenon among NNS, and found that there were great similarities, along with some interesting differences between two groups when giving and responding compliment in English.
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