This study aimed at examining North Korean Refugee Adolescents(NKRA)’ pragmatical competence focusing on refusal, request, and apology act and investigating correlations between the competence and current age, period of residing in Korea, and period of Korean language education. This study employed pragmatical competence acceptability judgment test that was proved its validity and reliability in previous studies. The study found out that there was significant discrepancy between NKRA and South Korean Adolescents in pragmatical competence, especially in accepting the different strategies following to power and distance in each act. However, NKRA showed significant improvement after one year of residing in Korea and also one year of Korean language education. Most of all, the period of Korean language education gave effect on their pragmatical competence. The study claimed that NKRA need to receive Korean language education for certain amount of time, although they seem to have similar Korean language competence.
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