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- Title
APPLES AND ORANGES: THE CASE OF WRITTEN AND EMAIL DCTS.
- Authors
KANIK, MEHMET
- Abstract
This study aims to investigate whether administering DCT in the form of elicited emails would give different results than written DCT. In particular, the study aims to compare two types of simulations, written-for-written as in elicited email and written-for-oral as in written DCT. To investigate, the DCTs were given to 53 college students, divided into two groups. While a group filled in a written DCT including two request situations, another group made the same requests via emails they sent directly to their professor's email address. The data was analyzed in terms of whether they included opening and closing, choice of moves and density of requests. The findings show that requests in email data included significantly more closing sequences, were longer and included more moves. Moreover, the choices of moves were significantly different in opening and support sequences. Findings suggest elicited emails may be an alternative approach to simulate reality. As a significant amount of daily and professional conversations take place via electronic mediums today, any attempt in training and assessment in language use should avoid a mismatch between natural reality and its simulation.
- Subjects
ACQUISITION of data; DISCOURSE analysis; EMAIL; DATA analysis; LANGUAGE &; languages; COLLEGE students
- Publication
Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2017, Vol 53, Issue 3, p399
- ISSN
1732-0747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/psicl-2017-0015