| 제목 | God, You, and Me: The Communal and Communicative Nature |
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| 저자 |
Deolito Vender Vistar Jr. |
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Vender Deolito Vistar.hwp
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| 논문 구분 | 일반논문 교육학 |
| 발행 기관 | 기독학문학회 |
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| 영문 초록 | When you are talking with your friend or spouse, do you listen to what he/she is saying or are you paying more attention to the accuracy of his/her grammar or pronunciation? I caught myself doing the latter one day when I was talking to my wife, both of us being non-native English speakers and yet using English to communicate at home, she being a Chinese and I a Filipino. She was saying a crucial point to me, when one slight mistake in her pronunciation caught my attention and this “slight” mistake actually caused me to miss her point altogether. After apologizing, I asked her to restate herself. I surmise this problem can take place not among native speakers but among ESL/EFL speakers. Non-native English speakers can be so scrupulous about verbal accuracy to the extent that we miss the fact that language is primarily for purposes of communication. This commitment to accuracy, which is good, unfortunately turns off people from actually speaking the language for fear of speaking it inaccurately! I asked a Korean middle school student: “Do you try to speak English at school, say, to your classmates and friends?” He confessed “no,” saying that he is afraid of making mistakes and eventually losing face in front of his peers. I assured him that it is alright to make mistakes because, after all, he is not a native speaker of that language. But I do understand this boy’s plight, which is commonplace here in Korea. His fear is not self-inflicted; it is caused by a society that has missed the purpose of language learning and acquisition. There is no wonder that the best way to acquire English is by immersion—the learner should live in an English speaking community, where the drive for verbal accuracy is not as highly emphasized and where English is spoken for the primary purpose of interpersonal communication—to understand and be understood. |
| 키워드 | God, You, and Me: The Communal and Communicative Nature |
