Share Paper: A Study On Expressing Gratitude Of Foreign Language Pre-Service Teachers

  1. Isil Acikali, Anadolu University, Turkey
Thursday, March 8 10:35-10:55 AM Capitol G

Abstract: The aim is to search for the students expressing gratitude in freshman and senior classes of English Language Teaching Department. Therefore,situations are analzed in order to design the classification of gratitude which took into consideration the relationship between interlocuter and object and the action for which the speech act (SA) is performed.The use of thanking sequences is explored by means of a questionnaire administrated to the freshman and senior ELT students.The classification model of the speech act of thanking is adopted from Coulmas (1981). Finally,the results are evaluated as which thanking formulae were used in these situations according to the ...