Gender differences in the use of requests by Turkish EFL learners

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Uludağ Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2004

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: MURAT MADAK

Danışman: ÇİĞDEM KARATEPE

Özet:

This study was carried out in order to investigate whether there was any significant difference between Turkish EFL learners' and native speakers' choice of request forms in terms of gender differences 100 EFL learners and 30 native speakers of English participated in the present study. In order to gather the necessary information, a judgment test in which the subjects were asked to rank five alternative request strategies from the least appropriate to the most by giving numbers from 1 to 5 was prepared. The data were analysed by means of Mann- Whitney U test. Analysis of the data showed that there was a significant difference between the two groups' choice of request strategies because of cultural differences rather than gender differences. However, in some situations, there appears to be significant differences between the informants because of gender differences.