Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2003
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Özlem Adak
Danışman: ZÜBEYDE SİNEM GENÇ
Özet:This study was carried out in order to investigate whether there was any significant difference between Turkish EFL leamers’ and native speakers’ use of politeness strategies in requests. 100 EFL leamers and 20 native speakers o f English participated in the present study. In order to gather the necessary information, two questionnaires were administered. The first one was a discourse completion test in which the subjects were asked to produce their own requests in given situations. The second questionnaire was a judgment test in which the subjects were asked to rank five altemative request strategies from the least appropriate to the most by giving numbers from 1 to 5. According to the social and psychological variables, the situations in both questionnaires were divided into six categories. Based on those six categories, the data were analysed by means o f chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests. Analysis of the data showed that there was a significant difference between the two groups’ use o f request strategies. Findings revealed a significant difference for ali the six categories. What is more, results o f the data indicated that Turkish EFL leamers were able to use request strategies in a similar way to the native speakers o f English when they were asked to rank the altematives given. The results also highlighted that Turkish EFL leamers were not able to use requests in a similar way to the native speakers when they were expected to produce their own strategies. It might be wrong to generalize the findings o f this study since they are limited to the students who study at Uludağ University. That’ s why this fact should be consıdered when the findings are evaluatcd.