A Study On The Use Of Complaints In The Interlanguage Of Turkish Efl Learners

Description

The purpose of this study is to investigate the complaint speech act set used
by Turkish EFL learners speaking to a commiserating and contradicting teacher. For
this purpose, four kinds of data sources were used: twenty native English speakers&amp / #8217 / role-plays, twenty five Turkish native speakers&amp / #8217 / role-plays, forty students&amp / #8217 / role-plays
and two native speakers&amp / #8217 / judgments on the students&amp / #8217 / production. The subjects were
given two different situations. Their role-plays were audio taped and transcribed. The
subjects&amp / #8217 / complaint speech act sets were analyzed, using a coding scheme from a
previous study in the literature. The baseline and the interlanguage data were
compared using SPSS to see to what extent they were similar and different, and to
see whether or not the Turkish EFL learners made positive and negative transfer,
and whether there were any features unique to the interlanguage of the learners.
The findings of the study revealed that Turkish EFL learners produced a
complaint speech act set when speaking to a commiserating and contradicting
teacher. The components of the complaint speech act set realized by the learners
were &amp / #8216 / complaint&amp / #8217 / , &amp / #8216 / justification&amp / #8217 / , &amp / #8216 / candidate solution: request&amp / #8217 / , &amp / #8216 / candidate solution:
demand&amp / #8217 / , and &amp / #8216 / explanation of purpose&amp / #8217 / . When speaking to the commiserating
teacher, the students made positive transfer in using the components &amp / #8216 / explanation of
purpose&amp / #8217 / , &amp / #8216 / complaint&amp / #8217 / , &amp / #8216 / justification&amp / #8217 / , and &amp / #8216 / request&amp / #8217 / . They made negative transfer in
using &amp / #8216 / demand&amp / #8217 / .
The students speaking to the contradicting teacher made positive transfer in
their use of the components &amp / #8216 / explanation of purpose&amp / #8217 / , &amp / #8216 / complaint&amp / #8217 / and &amp / #8216 / justification&amp / #8217 / .
The component &amp / #8216 / demand&amp / #8217 / was subject to negative transfer.

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L Education (General) 7-991

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1268499/index.pdf
Date	01 September 2003
Creators	Deveci, Tanju
Contributors	Zeyrek, Deniz
Publisher	METU
Source Sets	Middle East Technical Univ.
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	M.A. Thesis
Format	text/pdf
Rights	To liberate the content for public access