Use of Common Verb Phrases in Describing Everyday Activities by Advanced Korean-speaking Learners of English

• 영문명: Use of Common Verb Phrases in Describing Everyday Activities by Advanced Korean-speaking Learners of English
• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: Jin-Kyong Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』영어어문교육 제13권 제2호, 109~127쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.06.30

영문 초록

  As an attempt to investigate the use of common verbs by a small group of Korean college students at the advanced level, the present study describes the students’ speech production data collected from picture description tasks. The primary focus of the data description was how the students used high-frequency verbs in describing everyday activities. Out of total 442 units, 149 verbs were erroneously used. All erroneous utterances were classified into four categories according to their characteristics. The most prominent error type was overgeneralization due to incomplete knowledge of lexical items. Results showed that verbs used in everyday life were not easy even for the advanced level students. Although in some cases, L1 influence was discerned, the students’ problems are more fundamental. In particular, the data revealed lack of knowledge of collocational possibilities and restrictions, and confusion about semantic boundaries between verbs which have similar semantic areas. The findings suggest that teaching at the advanced level should take contrastive approaches intralingually as well as interlingually to the high-frequency verbs.

목차

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION
Ⅱ. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Ⅲ. METHOD
Ⅳ. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Ⅴ. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
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키워드

High-frequency verb phrases Collocation Contrastive approaches