An Exploration of the Institutional Discourse

Eunsook Sim (심은숙)

An Exploration of the Institutional Discourse

Modern English Education
Abbr : MEESO
2007, 8(3), pp.197-219
Publisher : The Modern English Education Society
Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Language Teaching

Eunsook Sim ¹

¹상지대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study is to investigate the norms or expectations of native and non-native English speaking students in the academic consultations. In this study, four graduate students participated. Each participant was asked to conduct four different tasks: Free Elicitation Task, Cued Elicitation Task, Discourse Completion Task, and Open-ended Interviews. The results show that the participants are aware of the prototypical patterns of the discourse but seem to have different perceptions in terms of function of small talks, the role and status, and politeness strategies. It is important that English language learners need to be aware of the sociolinguistic norms for the discourse and have strategies for negotiating speech acts in this context in order to have satisfactory interactions with expert members of the community in which they are seeking membership.

KEYWORDS

English for academic purposes/curriculum development/genre analysis/tertiary education

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