A Corpus-Based Study on the Expression of Past Time Events in Korean ESL Learners

• 영문명: A Corpus-Based Study on the Expression of Past Time Events in Korean ESL Learners
• 발행기관: 한국외국어교육학회
• 저자명: 이은주(Eun-Joo Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『Foreign Languages Education』Vol.12 No.1, 87~106쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.02.01

영문 초록

The present study compiles an ESL learner corpus over a period of one year in an attempt to provide a systematic analysis of learners' interlanguage. In particular, it investigates how ESL learners' devices of expressing past time events are developed in the context of both spoken and written discourse. The analysis of the corpus reveals that even though the learners have limited morpho-syntactic devices in the early stages of language acquisition, they efficiently used the discourse structure of the topic to express past time events. Further, the learners showed a sustained use of discourse pragmatic means (e.g., adverbs) to compensate for their limited morpho-syntactic devices. The learners' corpus reveals a disproportionate distribution in oral and written genres in the use of regular past forms, which seems to stem from pronunciation difficulties due to the learners' L1 phonological structure.

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Abstract

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Participants and the Corpora

Ⅲ. Analysis

Ⅳ. Results

Ⅴ. Discussion and Conclusion

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