The Acquisition of the English Locative Alternation by Korean EFL Learners - What Makes L2 Learning Difficult?

• 영문명: The Acquisition of the English Locative Alternation by Korean EFL Learners
• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: Boram Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』영어어문교육 제12권 제4호, 31~68쪽, 전체 38쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.12.01

영문 초록

  The present research investigates the acquisition of the English locative alternation by Korean EFL learners, which poses a learnability paradox, taking Pinker"s framework of learnability theory as its basis. It addresses two questions (1) how lexical knowledge is represented initially and at different levels of interlanguage development and (2) what kinds of difficulty Korean learners find in the acquisition of English locative verbs and their constructions. Three groups of learners at different proficiency levels with a control group of English native speakers are examined by two instruments: elicited production task and grammaticality judgment task. According to different levels of proficiency, the learners exhibit gradual sensitivity to a change-of-state meaning and obtain complete perception of the meanings of locative verbs (manner-of-motion and change-of-state) and their constructions. Overgeneralization errors are observed in their performance. The errors are due to misinterpretations of particular lexical items in conjunction with the universal linking rules. More fundamental cause of difficulty is accounted for by partial use of learning mechanisms, caused by insufficient L2 input.

목차

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION
Ⅱ. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Ⅲ. RESEARCH DESIGN
Ⅳ. RESULTS
Ⅴ. DISCUSSION
Ⅵ. CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
APPENDIX

키워드

argument structure alternations developmental pattern locative verbs 논항구조 교체 발달패턴 처소격 동사