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- Title
ON THE ABILITY TO TELL GOOD STORIES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE: ANALYSIS OF KOREAN EFL LEARNERS' ORAL "FROG STORY" NARRATIVES.
- Authors
Jennifer Yusun Kang
- Abstract
By focusing on the evaluative function (Labov & Waletzky, 1967) of narratives, the present study investigated how Korean adult EFL learners' narrative discourse in English may deviate from the native English speakers' discourse norms, and how such deviation may be explained by culturally determined discourse strategies in their native language. Analyses examine oral "frog story" narratives produced by Korean adult EFL learners in Korean and English, compared with those of adult American native English speakers, with special attention to the narrative length, narrative structural features, and evaluative devices. The findings show that the Koreans' narrative abilities in English were heavily influenced by the culturally determined strategies in their native language. Thus the Koreans failed to represent the preferred discourse style of the target culture. Considering the cultural differences in discourse perspectives, the pedagogical implications of the findings are discussed. (Oral Narratives, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Korean English Learners, Cross-cultural Narrative Discourse Analysis, Second/Foreign Language Narratives)
- Subjects
NARRATIVE art; NATIVE language; ADULT education
- Publication
Narrative Inquiry, 2003, Vol 13, Issue 1, p127
- ISSN
1387-6740
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ni.13.1.05kan