REQUESTING PREFERENCES OF TURKISH EFL LEARNERS: AGE, GENDER, AND PROFICIENCY LEVEL

The present study examined Turkish EFL learners’ awareness of indirectness as a politeness strategy, and to what degree they considered or would consider the principles of ‘power’, ‘social distance’, and ‘size of imposition’ while performing their requests under various situations and conditions. Th...

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Autor principal:	Levent UZUN
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Lenguaje:	DE EN FR TR
Publicado:	Fırat University 2019
Materias:	requesting age gender proficiency level turkish students. Social Sciences H Social sciences (General) H1-99
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:616aa869bd094d1b96b80ffb8e27e0a82021-11-24T09:21:00ZREQUESTING PREFERENCES OF TURKISH EFL LEARNERS: AGE, GENDER, AND PROFICIENCY LEVEL2148-416310.9761/JASSS1536https://doaj.org/article/616aa869bd094d1b96b80ffb8e27e0a82019-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jasstudies.com/index.jsp?mod=tammetin&makaleadi=242668247_37uzunlevent-737-754.pdf&key=26808https://doaj.org/toc/2148-4163The present study examined Turkish EFL learners’ awareness of indirectness as a politeness strategy, and to what degree they considered or would consider the principles of ‘power’, ‘social distance’, and ‘size of imposition’ while performing their requests under various situations and conditions. The study aimed at revealing whether gender, age, and linguistic proficiency level affected the pragmatic competence of the learners. The participants were 35 High School students in Bursa, Turkey, and 14 native speakers of English from Britain and the USA. The data were collected by the help of a 15-item multiple-choice questionnaire which was prepared by the researcher. Direct, indirect, and non-conventional indirect requesting tendencies were tested. Results revealed that the strategies preferred by Turkish EFL learners are affected by linguistic proficiency level, age, and gender. It was observed that female students preferred mostly indirect requesting utterances, which always surpassed male students’ tendencies at all ages and linguistic proficiency levels. It was also observed that directness decreased as the age and linguistic proficiency level increased, which suggested that indirectness increases together with the age and linguistic proficiency.Levent UZUNFırat Universityarticlerequestingagegenderproficiency levelturkish students.Social SciencesHSocial sciences (General)H1-99DEENFRTRJournal of Academic Social Science Studies , Vol 6, Iss 23, Pp 737-754 (2019)
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description	The present study examined Turkish EFL learners’ awareness of indirectness as a politeness strategy, and to what degree they considered or would consider the principles of ‘power’, ‘social distance’, and ‘size of imposition’ while performing their requests under various situations and conditions. The study aimed at revealing whether gender, age, and linguistic proficiency level affected the pragmatic competence of the learners. The participants were 35 High School students in Bursa, Turkey, and 14 native speakers of English from Britain and the USA. The data were collected by the help of a 15-item multiple-choice questionnaire which was prepared by the researcher. Direct, indirect, and non-conventional indirect requesting tendencies were tested. Results revealed that the strategies preferred by Turkish EFL learners are affected by linguistic proficiency level, age, and gender. It was observed that female students preferred mostly indirect requesting utterances, which always surpassed male students’ tendencies at all ages and linguistic proficiency levels. It was also observed that directness decreased as the age and linguistic proficiency level increased, which suggested that indirectness increases together with the age and linguistic proficiency.
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title	REQUESTING PREFERENCES OF TURKISH EFL LEARNERS: AGE, GENDER, AND PROFICIENCY LEVEL
title_short	REQUESTING PREFERENCES OF TURKISH EFL LEARNERS: AGE, GENDER, AND PROFICIENCY LEVEL
title_full	REQUESTING PREFERENCES OF TURKISH EFL LEARNERS: AGE, GENDER, AND PROFICIENCY LEVEL
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REQUESTING PREFERENCES OF TURKISH EFL LEARNERS: AGE, GENDER, AND PROFICIENCY LEVEL

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