REQUESTIVE E-MAILS OF TURKISH EFL LEARNERS: A COMPARISON WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND NATIVE SPEAKERS OF TURKISH

European Journal of English Language Teaching ISSN: 2501-7136 ISSN-L: 2501-7136 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1012564 Volume 3 │ Issue 1 │ 2017 REQUESTIVE E-MAILS OF TURKISH EFL LEARNERS: A COMPARISON WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS OF... More

European Journal of English Language Teaching ISSN: 2501-7136 ISSN-L: 2501-7136 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1012564 Volume 3 │ Issue 1 │ 2017 REQUESTIVE E-MAILS OF TURKISH EFL LEARNERS: A COMPARISON WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND NATIVE SPEAKERS OF TURKISH Elçin Ölmezer-Öztürki Anadolu University, Turkey Abstract: This study aims to investigate the degree of directness and amount of lexical / phrasal internal and external modifications employed by 20 Turkish EFL learners, 10 native speakers of English, and 10 native speakers of Turkish. It also aims to explore whether there is a difference across three groups while making requests. The participants were asked to write two requestive e-mails to a friend and a professor. The e-mails were analyzed and classified based on Economidou-Kogetsidis’s (2011) framework which relies on Blum- Kulka et al. (1989) and Biesenbach-Lucas (2006, 2007). The results indicated that these three groups had both similaritie Less