Degree Adverbial Collocations in the Korean EFL Learners’ Writing Corpus - With a Focus on Intensifiers

• 영문명: Degree Adverbial Collocations in the Korean EFL Learners’ Writing Corpus
• 발행기관: 한국외국어교육학회
• 저자명: Eun-Joo Lee(이은주)
• 간행물 정보: 『Foreign Languages Education』Vol.13 No.4, 1~21쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.12.01

영문 초록

  Vocabulary expansion is essential for learners to gain proficiency in L2, but learners’ lexical knowledge has not drawn much research attention in SLA (Howarth, 1996). In an attempt to throw light on a neglected aspect of learners’ competence, this paper investigates the use of a lexical item in the writing corpora. In particular, it compares the frequency and distribution of intensifiers in the EFL corpus with those in a native English corpus. The result of the frequency analysis in the EFL corpus offers an evidence of significant overuse of the limited types of maximizers and boosters, which in turn result in the inflated frequency of intensifiers. Further, the present study uses the mutual information score to measure the strength of the bond between selected intensifiers and adjacent lexical items. The result does not clearly demonstrate associations between the intensifier and the adjacent words due to the small corpus size, but it provides some possible pedagogical implications for L2 teaching. The frequency information rather than the information on the strength of associations between intensifiers and adjacent words, for example, would be more helpful to EFL learners.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Theoretical Background
Ⅲ. The Method
Ⅳ. Results and Discussion
Ⅴ. Conclusion
References

키워드

L2 learner corpora collocation degree adverbial intensifiers mutual information 제2언어 학습자 코퍼스 연어 정도부사 강조부사 상호정보