The act of refusal takes place in everyday lives, but it has been discussed to be a difficult speech act for nonnative speakers. This study seeks to investigate Korean EFL learners’ refusals in extended discourse along with their pragmatic perceptions. Sixteen college students were engaged in oral role-plays with two native English speakers and instructed to refuse the interlocutor’s request. The refusal performances were analyzed using conversation analysis framework with respect to the interlocutors’ different powers and the learners’ proficiency levels. Learners also participated in retrospective verbal reports. Findings depict different verbal and nonverbal features illustrating learners’ sensitivity towards higher status and their different linguistic abilities. Furthermore, their verbal reports revealed that despite their pragmatic awareness, learners were not fully equipped with appropriate L2 pragmatic knowledge.

1. INTRODUCTION
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
    2.1. Interlanguage Pragmatics
    2.2. Empirical Studies
3. METHODOLOGY
    3.1. Participants
    3.2. Data Collection
    3.3. Data Analysis
4. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS
    4.1. Refusals to Persons of Different Statuses
    4.2. Refusals by Learners of Different Proficiencies
    4.3. Retrospective Verbal Reports
5. CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

• Ye Lin Park(Department of English Language Education, College of Education, Seoul National University)
• Sun-Young Oh(Department of English Language Education, College of Education, Seoul National University) Corresponding Author