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The Asian EFL Journal
The study investigated the occurrences of pragmatic transfer of Korean EFL learners at three
proficiency levels in their performance of refusals. Forty native speakers of Korean, 37 native
speakers of English, and 22 beginning, 43 intermediate, and 46 advanced Korean EFL
learners participated in this study. The subjects completed a written discourse completion
test, which elicited refusals of requests, invitations, offers, and suggestions from interlocutors
of different status (i.e., higher, equal, and lower status). The data were categorized according
to the refusal taxonomy and were analyzed as consisting of a sequence of semantic formulas.
The results of this study showed the effect of the native language pragmatic transfer to the
target language at all three levels of proficiency, with an increase in transfer commensurate
with an increase in proficiency.
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