Korean EFL Learners’ Sensitivity to Stylistic Differences in Their Letter Writing
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Korean EFL learners’ stylistic sensitivity was examined through the two types of letter writing, professional and personal. The base of comparison with the English native speakers’ stylistic sensitivity was the linguistic style markers that were statistically found by Biber’s (1988)multi-dimensional model of variation of English language. The main finding was that Korean university students were sensitive to stylistic difference in the correct direction, though their linguistic repertoire was limited to the easy and simple linguistic features. Also, the learners were skewed in the involved style in both types of the letters unlike the native speakers and it was interpreted as due to the general developmental direction from informal to formal linguistic style. Learners were also skewed in the explicit style in both types of letters unlike the native speakers and it was interpreted as due to the learners’ heavy reliance on one particular linguistic feature. As a whole, the learners’ stylistic sensitivity heavily relied on the small number of linguistic features that they have already acquired, which happen to be simple and basic linguistic features.
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Korean EFL learners’ stylistic sensitivity was examined through the two types of letter writing, professional and personal. The base of comparison with the English native speakers’ stylistic sensitivity was the linguistic style markers that were statistically found by Biber’s (1988)multi-dimensional model of variation of English language. The main finding was that Korean university students were sensitive to stylistic difference in the correct direction, though their linguistic repertoire was limited to the easy and simple linguistic features. Also, the learners were skewed in the involved style in both types of the letters unlike the native speakers and it was interpreted as due to the general developmental direction from informal to formal linguistic style. Learners were also skewed in the explicit style in both types of letters unlike the native speakers and it was interpreted as due to the learners’ heavy reliance on one particular linguistic feature. As a whole, the learners’ stylistic sensitivity heavily relied on the small number of linguistic features that they have already acquired, which happen to be simple and basic linguistic features.
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