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- Title
AN INVESTIGATION INTO GRAMMATICAL AND PRAGMATIC AWARENESS OF PROSPECTIVE ENGLISH TEACHERS.
- Authors
HÖL, Devrim; AYGÜN, Şerife
- Abstract
The main goal of this study is to investigate the perceived degree of grammatical and pragmatic awareness of the freshman and senior students at English Language Teaching (ELT) Department. With this aim, the participants were chosen randomly from freshman (N=26) and senior (N=22) students. This study adopted a quantitative research design by gathering data from discourse completion tasks (DCT) involving twenty different discourse completion tasks and scenarios including four speech acts: requests, apologies, suggestions, and refusals. Firstly, Shapiro-Wilk test was used to test the normality. Secondly, Mann-Whitney U tests were run for the data analysis of DCT. Thirdly, to compare two groups, which are freshmen and senior students in this study, and to discover the degree of awareness in grammar and pragmatics as well as perceptions for the severity of errors in DCT scenarios in two groups, Spearman's rho test of correlation was conducted. The statistical findings revealed that there is no significant difference between freshman and senior students with respect to their degree of grammatical and pragmatic awareness. However, students were found to have significantly higher degree of pragmatic awareness than grammatical awareness. In addition, students rated pragmatic errors as more severe than the grammatical ones. These findings might be related with the ELT curriculum. The courses they take such as Oral Communication Skills and World Englishes and Culture might have raised their pragmatic awareness and shifted their focus from grammar towards communicative and pragmatic aspect of language. The overall results of the study has a number of pedagogical implications for language learning and teaching.
- Subjects
ENGLISH teachers; APOLOGIZING; ENGLISH language in foreign countries; MANN Whitney U Test; AWARENESS; ORAL communication
- Publication
International Journal of Eurasian Education & Culture, 2023, Vol 8, Issue 22, p1091
- ISSN
2602-4047
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35826/ijoecc.679