The Competence of German Majors at Khon Kaen University in Terms of Using English and German for Negotiation
Keywords:
competence, transfer, English, German, negotiationAbstract
Abstract
The main purpose of this article is to investigate the language transfer competence between English and German in the negotiation context. The researcher purposively selected the topic Negotiating English and German, and designed the specific tests in both languages regarding the language transfer competence of Thai learners. In doing so, students were expected to apply the knowledge based on a comparative study between the two languages. Based on the purposive sampling, the research participants as test takers were twenty students who majored in German at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University in Thailand and enrolled in the course Communicative German for the Workplace in 2017. The findings reveal that 1) Students could correctly compare words, collocations, and expressions of English with German. 2) Students could relate their syntactical knowledge of their L2 to L3, and 3) Errors concerning the language transfer found in their translation tasks from one language to another, namely from German into English and vice versa can be explained by the impact of L1, L2, and L3 on their language learning.
Keywords: competence, transfer, English, German, negotiation
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