영어입사지원서 무브 분석
-한국대학생 사례 연구-

박 혜 경^*, 전 지 현^**

고려대학교, 이화여자대학교

Move analyses of English job application letters: A case of Korean college students.

Ji-hyeon Jeon^**, Park Hai-kyong^*

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the rhetorical structureof English job application letters written by Korean college students. Collegestudents were asked to write job application letters as an assignment for theirBusiness English class. A move-analysis was conducted for the obtained collegestudents' application letters. Then, the results were compared to the authenticapplication letters written by (1) Korean workers who obtained the interviewand the job through their application letters and (2) native English-speakerswho were in search of jobs in Korea. The results indicated that there were noconsistent differences among the three group statistically. However, the authenticletters from the Korean and the English workers showed similar patterns in movesequence, frequency, and length, which was different from those written by thecollege students. The Korean college students seemed to use all the moves intheir letters, whereas the other two groups seemed to focus more on promotingcandidature(Move 5) for the communicative purpose of a job application letter.The present study suggests that an understanding of both the rhetorical patternsand the communicative purpose (i.e., to obtain an interview opportunity in thecase of submitting a job application letter) should be emphasized in the genrewriting process.

Key Words : ESP,writing,genre,move-analysis,application letter

Reference

Vol. 40 No. 4 (2022.12)

Journal Abbreviation j. Korea Saf. Manag. Sci.
Frequency Published four times annually in March, June, September, and December
Doi Prefix 10.14353/sjk.
Year of Launching 1993
Publisher The Sociolinguistic Society of Korea

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