Offers and Requests: Performance by Japanese Learners of English.
Offers and Requests: Performance by Japanese Learners of English.
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提议和要求：日本英语学习者的表演。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-971x.1990.tb00269.x
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发表时间：
1990
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Saeko Fukushima
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作者：
Saeko Fukushima
摘要：本文调查了日本大学生在发信人和受话人地位平等、亲密程度不同的情况下，在向他人提供东西和提出请求时的英语表现。日语受试者的表现与以英语为母语的人的表现进行了比较。这项研究的主要发现包括：(1)日语受试者不能根据情况使用适当的表达方式，即使他们想对听话人更有礼貌；(2)日语受试者在大多数情况下使用的表达过于直接，听起来很粗鲁。这意味着，当日本受试者想要区分不同情况下的表达时，他们不能用英语表达他们的意图。研究结果表明，日本英语学习者的语用能力需要在他们的语言教学中得到加强。
ABSTRACT: This paper investigates how Japanese university students performed in English, when offering something to someone and when making requests, in situations where the addresser and the addressee are equal in status, and the degrees of closeness between them are different. The performances by the Japanese subjects were compared with those of native English-speaking people. The major findings of this study include: (1) the Japanese subjects could not use appropriate expressions according to situations, even when they wanted to be more polite to the addressees; and (2) the expressions used by the Japanese subjects were too direct in most situations, and sounded rude. This meant that the Japanese subjects could not express their intentions in English, when they wanted to differentiate expressions under various situations. The results of this study revealed that the pragmatic competence of Japanese learners of English needs to be reinforced in their language instruction.