Apology Speech Act Realization by NESTs and NNESTs

This study investigates apology speech act realization by native and nonnative English speaking
teachers of English as a second/foreign language. For this purpose, 100 native English-speaking
teachers of English as a second language in the USA and 100 nonnative English speaking teachers of
English as a foreign language in Turkey took a discourse completion task in English. Based on the
average number of strategies, the most common strategies were selected to compile speech act sets
for either group in each situation. These strategies were compared using chi-square tests. Results
indicate that the patterns of apology speech act sets differ in all situations. Moreover, chi-square tests
revealed significant differences in strategy use. Results have implications in terms of training
nonnative English speaking teachers in language use.