The Use of Emotional Expressions in English by Non-Native Speakers : A Corpus-Based Comparative Study

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Although emotional expression has been studied from the perspective of many different disciplines, the study of the use of learners' emotional expressions in SLA has not yet been fully explored. This paper explores the learners' use of emotional expressions in the Japanese, Chinese, French and Italian learner corpora in spoken English against that of native speakers. The results show that 1) the use of emotion vocabulary differed according to the learners' language background and 2) strategies used in expressing emotions also differed according to the learners' linguistic background. Overall, the results of this paper have proven that Japanese students as well as the other non-native students do try to express emotions, in fact more frequently than native speakers of English. The difference seems to lie in how well they can use a variety of emotional expressions and their supporting strategies. Providing students with sufficient exposure to emotional expressions and their supporting strategies should be one of the most important instructional goals to implement.
昭和女子大学の論文
2006-03-01