Recognition and Production of English Conventional Expressions in Relation to Academic Achievement

Woo-hyun Jung (정우현)

doi:10.18095/meeso.2022.23.4.12

Recognition and Production of English Conventional Expressions in Relation to Academic Achievement

Modern English Education
Abbr : MEESO
2022, 23(4), pp.12-23
DOI : 10.18095/meeso.2022.23.4.12
Publisher : The Modern English Education Society
Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Language Teaching
Received : October 20, 2022
Accepted : December 1, 2022
Published : December 31, 2022

Woo-hyun Jung ¹

¹Yeungnam University

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study aims to examine how EFL learners’ recognition and production of English conventional expressions are related to their overall English language learning achievement as measured by course grades. To this end, this study employed a recognition task and a production task implemented by 126 Korean and international university students. Analysis of individual conventional expressions showed that higher-level students scored much higher than their lower-level counterparts in recognizing 12 of 13 conventional expressions. Higherlevel students also demonstrated a greater production ability than their lower-level counterparts in 8 of 13 expressions. The higher-level students’ superiority to lower-level students was confirmed by their overall recognition and production scores. Another noticeable finding was that learners performed better on the recognition task than on the production task regardless of their language achievement levels. Closer examination revealed that there was a positive relationship between recognition and production of conventional expressions for the total number of students and for lower-level students. Based on these results, this study provides helpful suggestions for enhancing pragmatic knowledge of conventional expressions.

KEYWORDS

conventional expressions, recognition, production, academic achievement

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