Article Semantics in L2 English Acquisition by Korean Elementary School Students

• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Taegoo Chung
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제19권 1호, 23~46쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.04.30

영문 초록

This research investigates the effects of the universal semantic feature, specificity, in the L2 acquisition of English articles by Korean 6^th graders. It reveals that specificity effects the young students' English acquisition, but the marker of specificity is different form the one reported in previous studies (Ionin et. al. 2004, 2009). In a forced multiple-choice written test, the elementary school students used the indefinite article a more in the specific context than in the non-specific context, unlike the subjects of the previous studies who overused the more in the specific context than in the nonspecific context. These findings suggest the developmental stages of specificity: Korean EFL learners use the indefinite article a at the first stage and the definite article the at the next. With the young EFL learners fluctuation between specificity and definiteness settings was not revealed clearly unlike with the children in Zdrenko and Paradis (2008), indicating that UG and LI both play a role in acquiring L2 English articles.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Article Semantics and L2 Acquisition

3. The Study

4. Results

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

References

키워드

English articles specificity definiteness second language acquisition UG L1-transfer parameter