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Study of Chinese Learners Pedagogical Choices in Korean CLKs awareness and ability to make use of relational affordances and the learnerinternal aspects were crucial For instance the RIs from TS and ZL both mentioned their relationships with their local professors as an important factor in their decision to not criticize a strict professor see example 2 This article examines all local research on Korean published until 2020 It focuses on core pragmatic topics including Discourse Construction Tests The test for discourse completion is a popular instrument in pragmatic research It has numerous advantages but also some disadvantages The DCT for instance is unable to account for cultural and individual differences Additionally the DCT is prone to bias and could result in overgeneralizations This is why it is important to analyze it carefully before it is used for research or for assessment purposes Despite its limitations the DCT can be a useful instrument to study the relationship between prosody information structure and nonnative speakers The ability of the DCT in two or more stages to manipulate social variables related to politeness can be a strength This characteristic can be utilized to study the effect of prosody in different cultural contexts In 프라그마틱 공식홈페이지 pragmatic kr of linguistics DCT is one of the most effective tools to study the behavior of communication learners It can be used to investigate various aspects such as politeness turntaking and lexical choices It can be used to assess the level of phonological sophistication in learners speech A recent study utilized an DCT to test EFL students refusal skills Participants were presented with a variety of scenarios to choose from and then asked to choose the appropriate response The authors found the DCT to be more effective than other refusal methods like videos or questionnaires However they cautioned that the DCT should be used with caution and include other data collection methods DCTs can be developed using specific language requirements like the form and content These criteria are intuitive and based on the assumptions of test developers They are not always exact and could be misleading in describing the way ELF learners actually respond to requests in realworld interactions This issue calls for more research into alternative methods of assessing the ability to refuse In a recent research study DCT responses to student inquiries via email were compared with the responses of an oral DCT The results revealed that the DCT was more direct and traditionally indirect request forms and made a less frequent use of hints than the email data did Metapragmatic Questionnaires MQs This study investigated Chinese learners pragmatic choices when using Korean It used various experimental tools including Discourse Completion Tasks metapragmatic questions and Refusal Interviews Participants were 46 CLKs with intermediate or higher ability who responded to MQs and DCTs They were also asked to reflect on their evaluation and refusal performances in RIs The results showed that CLKs often resisted native Korean pragmatic norms and their decisions were influenced by four major factors that included their identities their multilingual identities their ongoing life histories and relational advantages These findings have pedagogical implications for L2 Korean assessment The MQ data was analyzed in order to identify the participants choices in practice The data was classified according to Ishihara 2010s definition of pragmatic resistance Then we compared the selections with their linguistic performance on DCTs to determine if they were indicative of pragmatic resistance Interviewees also had to explain the reasons for choosing a pragmatic behavior in certain situations The results of the MQs DCTs and ztests were analyzed with descriptive statistics and Z tests It was found that the CLKs often resorted to euphemistic responses such as sorry and thank you This could be due to their lack of familiarity with the target language which resulted in an inadequate understanding of korea pragmatic norms The results showed that CLKs preferences to differ from L1 and L2 norms or to move towards L1 norms varied based on the DCT situations For instance in Situations 3 and 12 the CLKs favored to diverge from both L1 and L2 pragmatic norms whereas in Situation 14 they favored a convergence to L1 norms The RIs showed that CLKs knew about their practical resistance to each DCT situation The RIs were conducted onetoone within two days after the participants had completed the MQs The RIs were recorded and transcribing and then coded by two coders from different companies The coding process was an iterative process in which the coders read and discussed each transcript The results of coding are evaluated against the original RI transcripts to determine whether they reflected the actual behavior Refusal Interviews RIs One of the major questions in pragmatic research is the reason why learners decide to rescind nativespeaker pragmatic norms A recent study sought to answer this question using a variety of experimental tools such as DCTs MQs and RIs The participants consisted of 46 CLKs 44 CNSs and 45 KNSs from five Korean universities Participants were required to complete the DCTs and MQs in their L1 or L2 Then they were invited to a RI where they were required to consider their responses to the DCT situations The results showed that CLKs on average did not adhere to the pragmatic norms of native speakers in more than 40 of their responses They did this despite the fact that they could create patterns that resembled native ones Furthermore they were clearly aware of their pragmatism They attributed their choices to learnerinternal aspects such as their identities personalities multilingual identities and ongoing life histories They also referred to external factors like relational advantages They also discussed for instance how their interactions with their professors helped them to perform better in terms of the linguistic and cultural expectations of their university However the interviewees expressed concerns about the social pressures and punishments they could face if they flouted their social norms They were concerned that their local friends might consider them foreigners and think they are not intelligent This was a concern similar to the concerns expressed by Brown 2013 and Ishihara 2009 These results suggest that native speakers pragmatic norms are not the norm for Korean learners They may still be useful as a model for official Korean proficiency tests Future researchers should reassess the applicability of these tests in different cultural contexts and specific situations This will allow them to better understand the effects of different cultural contexts on the behavior of students and classroom interactions of L2 students Moreover this will allow educators to develop more effective methodologies to teach and test the koreas pragmatics Seukhoon Paul Choi principal advisor at Stratways Group in Seoul is a geopolitical risk consultancy Case Studies The case study method is an investigative technique that uses participantcentered indepth investigations to investigate a particular subject It is a method that makes use of various sources of information to help support the findings such as interviews observations documents and artifacts This kind of research can be used to study unique or complex topics that are difficult for other methods of measuring In a case study the first step is to define the subject and the goals of the study This will allow you to identify which aspects of the topic must be investigated and which aspects can be left out It is also helpful to review the existing literature to gain a better understanding of the subject It will also help put the issue in a larger theoretical context This case study was built on an opensource platform the KMMLU Leaderboard 50 along with its Koreanspecific benchmarks HyperCLOVA X and LDCC Solar figure 1 below The results of this experiment showed that L2 Korean learners were particularly dependent on the influence of native models They were more likely to choose incorrect answers that were literal interpretations of the prompts which were not based on the correct pragmatic inference They also exhibited an unnatural tendency to add their own text or garbage to their responses further detracting from their response quality The participants of this study were L2 Korean students who had achieved the level of four in the Test of Proficiency in Korean TOPIK in their third or second year at university and hoped to reach level six by their next attempt They were asked questions about their WTCSPCC pragmatic awareness understanding and their knowledge of the world The interviewees were presented two scenarios each of which involved a hypothetical interaction with their interactants and were asked to choose one of the following strategies to use when making a request They were then asked to provide the reasons behind their decision The majority of the participants attributed their lack of a pragmatic response to their personalities TS for instance claimed that she was difficult to approach and was hesitant to inquire about her interlocutors wellbeing when they were working at a high rate even though she thought native Koreans would