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| CMC - Nasuha (Question 1) |
| Mar 25, 2009 |
Title:STUDENTS WRITING EMAILS TO FACULTY: AN EXAMINATION OF E-POLITENESS AMONG NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH
Author: Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas (Georgetown University)
A) RESEARCH QUESTION
1. Do student’s emails to professors promote more direct or indirect request strategies? Does directness level vary with increasing imposition of request? And are there evidence politeness features that mitigate students’ email request?
2. Do request strategies and politeness features of NSs and NNSs’ emails differ?
3. Is there a preferred linguistic realization by NSs and NNSs speakers for different request types?
B) SAMPLE
About 533 students from NSs and NNSs (Asian) of English who were enrolled in graduate level TESOL course at a major American university.
C) PROCEDURE/METHODOLOGY
The email messages were taken from female Professor with ESL teaching experience. Thus, the imposition of students’ email request on he professor, and NS/NNS status is the variables been study.
D) DURATION
The research was conducted for six semesters.
E) FINDINGS
• The directness level can be divided into three which are direct, conventional indirect and hint. The NSs chose direct strategies for lower imposition requests (i.e. appointment and feedback), indirect strategies for lowest imposition request (appointment) and direct strategies for higher imposition request (feedback). Whereas, the NNSs used more direct strategies for lower imposition requests but fewer direct requests for requesting feedback than assignment.
• The politeness features can be divided into syntactic modifiers, lexical modifiers and request perspective. The NSs and NNSs used frequently adding syntactic politeness devices especially in request for appointment and extension. Whereas, NSs and NNSs used minimally lexical modifier as both mostly relied on syntactic to soften requestive force and enhance politeness.
• Finally, NSs and NNSs preferred linguistic realization differs in their appointment, feedback and extension request according to what they prefer best used like NNS would used contracted form I’d NS do not and used speaker perspective could I.
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