How Do Korean EFL Learners Acquire English Modal Auxiliaries Can, Could, May, and Might?:

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: In cheol Choi
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제92호, 233~248쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.01.01

영문 초록

By comparing a corpus of Korean learners of English with a native speaker corpus, this study shows to what extent and in what ways Korean learners acquire English modal verbs can, could, may, and might (Hunston 2002). This corpus study revealed that the Korean learners underused could, may, and might. Two factors can explain the pattern of the Korean learners’ acquisition of the 4 modal verbs. First, the difficulty of combining tense with the modal verbs impedes the learners’ preterit form use of the modal verbs. Second, the epistemic modality is acquired much later than the root modality such as possibility, permission, and ability (Gibbs 1990). Since may and might typically associate with the epistemic modality, the learners rarely used those modal verbs.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Modal Verbs in the Acquisitin Literature

3. Method

4. Results

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

References

키워드

modal verbs learner corpus second language acquisition epistemic modality root modality