Chinese university students choice of apology strategies in discourse completion task 英语毕业论文.doc

Chinese university students choice of apology strategies in discourse completion task Introduction 1.1. Statement of the problem Recently, a study was started among Chinese university students, which makes an effort to investigate the apology strategies that Chinese university students choose to use in their common life. There were more than one hundred students to participate in this research. 1.2. Purpose and signi?cance of the study The study is important because it is the first attempt to provide insights into Chinese university students’ use. In some way, it is a kind of communication tool. The main research question is how to choose apology strategies for Chinese University students in particular situations. 2. Literature review 2.1. Background Before and in the early 1980s in second language acquisition (SLA), the focus was on linguistic competence. The main view was that in language teaching, people paid exclusive attention to phonology, morphology, syntax, to a lower degree; the theoretical basis of this view was drawn from the teachings of Contrastive Analysis and the Chomskyan notion of linguistic competence. In 1972, Hymes suggested that Chomsky’s mere theoretical and idealized linguistic competence fell short of accounting for aspects of the language use, suggesting the term ‘communicative competence’ [1] because it included social and referential aspects of the language. Grammatical competence: Knowledge of lexis, morphology, syntax, phonology, and semantics . Sociolinguistic competence: The ability to understand and interpret social meanings of utterances taking into consideration situational and contextual factors of language use . Strategic competence: The ability to overcome communication problems . Discourse competence: Formal cohesion and semantic coherence . This model, was criticized for the absence of an explicit connection between its subcomponents (Alcon, 2000; Jorda, 2005 )—a connection necessary for a deeper understa