The Study of Types of Learners’ Production in Second Language Acquisition

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Soojin Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제26권 제3호, 199~211쪽, 전체 13쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.12.30

영문 초록

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the types of learners’ production in order to further our understanding of the role of the learners’ production in second language acquisition and of the possible effects of teachers’ role to induce learners’ production and to reduce using Korean during English classes. Data collection was done though a Non-Participant Observation by the researcher. The researcher observed English classes taught by the native teacher for two weeks in D kindergarten located in Seocho-doing Kagnam-gu, Seoul, Korea. From this study, the major types of learners’ production can be observed and the researcher categorized learners’ English production in three major types-imitate speech, formulaic speech and creative speech, Based on the findings, the researcher compared and contrasted the types of learners’ production by their Korean age. In a 5-year-old class, imitate speech is the most frequent output among their production whereas in 6 and 7-year-old classes, formulaic speech is the most frequent output in their production. In this study, the researcher provided the types of learners’ production information and insisted of necessity of the further studies on the learners’ production and roles of English teachers.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Methods

Ⅲ. Findings

Ⅳ. Discussions

Ⅴ. Implications

References

키워드

second language acquisition types of learners’ production output proficiency communicative ability silent period imitate speech formulaic speech creative speech