중학교 3학년 교과서에 실린 대화문의 화용론적 연구

초록

The present study attempted to analyze textbooks from a pragmatic perspective to find whether the dialogues are presented authentically in comparison to actual English used by native speakers. First, we looked into the dialogues in terms of 'request' and 'refusal' speech acts through the most adopted 9 kinds of middle school third year textbooks. Second, we had 20 English native speakers and 15 Korean middle school students in the 3rd grade fill out the questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 14 questions on requests and refusals in a wide variety of social factors based on social power and distance. Main findings of this study are as follows: the patterns of English native speakers' speech acts on requests are presented in almost similar ways to middle school textbooks. It proves that textbooks provide very desirable expressions and ideas which reflect pragmatic importance and effectiveness. The current middle school textbooks, however, don't pay much attention to teach diverse expressions about refusals by just covering a few or similar patterns. Finally, middle school textbooks are generally limited to the story of families, friends, and school lives. Even though there are some dialogues which are not concerned about three familiar topics to students, they don't supply specific and enough description of each situation. This lack of explanation tends to prevent students from learning multiple variables they can belong to in social relationship.

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