A Study on the Learning of Polite Expressions Using M-learning

Kim Hye Jeong

doi:10.21049/ccs.2016.42..261

Cross-Cultural Studies

2016, 42(), pp.261-283
DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2016.42..261
Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
Research Area : Literature

Kim Hye Jeong ¹

¹국민대학교

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to consider the possibility of learning polite expressions of English using the mobile application Naver Band. To improve communicative competence, students need to develop sociolinguistic competence as well as grammatical and discourse competence. To be accordant to social context, the roles of the participants, and the purpose of the interaction, students have to make an appropriate utterance. When a hearer has a higher social status and is older than a speaker, or have low levels of familiarity, Korean native speaker tends to use polite expressions. Students need to learn polite expressions of English because English has a different honorific system from Korean. To realize the characteristics and function of polite language is one thing, but to learn it in a real classroom is another. This study attempts to apply the use of a mobile application, which is considered a user-friendly tool for students, into learning polite language using the UK historical drama, Downton Abbey. Two tests were administered to an experimental group that used the mobile application and a control group that used group work. The results of the two tests show that the use of the mobile application has a positive effect on learning polite expressions and is effective as an after-school activity. In an open-ended questionnaire, students tend to identify polite expressions as superior or high-level language forms and separate these forms from practical expressions. It should be noted as well that teachers need to consider instructing in modern English when using a historical drama in the teaching and learning of polite expressions.
KEYWORDS

M-learning, polite expression, mobile application, polite language, historical drama
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