Eliciting speech act data on complaints : cartoon-prompt MCQ versus : cartoon-prompt DCT

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DCTs have long been a popular tool for speech act elicitation. As a part of the methodological and validation research on DCTs, this study examines the degree of consistency between MCQ and DCT type test forms of the "Picture Frustration Test" (Rosenzweig, 1978) when administered in English. The P-F test is a series of cartoon like pictures, each depicting an everyday, interpersonal frustrating situation. A previous study (Tatsuki, 2000) using the P-F test to elicit complaints by Japanese students in both Japanese and English found that a significant number of subjects responded to stress or frustration using the same direction of aggression in both languages but the type of aggression was different. The P-F study functions like a Discourse Completion Test (DCT), which uses a cartoon rather than text-only prompt. The DCT method is very time consuming to code so Rose and Ono (1995) proposed the use of a multiple-choice questionnaire (MCQ) as a substitute and found that the MCQ revealed more contextual variation in every situation than the DCT. The possible influence of social desirability on the MCQ and DCT type test forms is also measured.
神戸市外国語大学研究会の論文
2003-09-30