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Rating EFL Learner's Interlanguag Pragmatic Competence by Native and Non-native English Speaking Teachers
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Alemi, Minoo (Supervisor) ; Eslami Rasekh, Zohreh (Co-Advisor)
Abstract
Pragmatic assessment and consistency in rating are among the subject matters which are still in need of more in-depth investigations. The significance of the issue is highlighted when remembering that inconsistency in ratings would surely damage the test fairness issue in assessment and lead to much diversity in ratings. The purpose of this study was investigating the criteria that native (American) and non-native (Iranian) English speaking teachers considered while rating the pragmatic productions of Iranian EFL learners regarding the two speech acts of compliment and compliment response. Overall, a hundred and twenty teachers (sixty native and sixty non-native raters) participated in this...
Native and Nonnative English Speakers' Speech Act Production:Compliment and Compliment Response
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Alemi, Minoo (Supervisor) ; Khosravizadeh, Parvaneh (Co-Supervisor)
Abstract
The present study, examined native English speakers and nonnative English learners in terms of Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP), more specifically intercultural variations in performing the two speech acts of compliments and compliment responses. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative analysis with regard to the research questions. First, the data was collected from 50 Americans and 50 Iranians through compliment and compliment response Discourse Completion Tests (DCTs). Then, patterns of strategies from natives and nonnatives productions, were extracted. Regarding compliments, 8 strategies were found including Appreciation or Admiration followed by Explicitness, Acknowledgement...