Semantics in English Article Usage by Korean EFL Learners: A Corpus-Based Study

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Daria Soon-Young Seog(석순영)
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제97호, 163~177쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.03.30

국문 초록

The present study investigates the semantics involved in the L2 English article use by Korean EFL learners. The examined usage data were extracted from the researcher compiled learner corpus, the Kyungpook National University Student English Learner Corpus-Writing (KSELC-W). The importance of current research is in the fact that the investigated data was not collected through formal elicitation tasks or grammar focused activities. Therefore, the learner corpus data represent Korean EFL learners unconscious knowledge of the English article system and their performance on timed writing sessions which did not focus on grammar. The findings reveal that Korean EFL learners do not make random misuse or overuse errors in production of English articles the and a(n) and that the patterns are in accordance with the Fluctuation Hypothesis. Additionally, results show that the semantic feature specificity effects the Korean EFL learners in the current study and provide supporting data for direct UG access underlying article choice. These results support previously reported findings by Ionin et. al. (2004, 2009) and Ko et al. (2009).

목차

1. Introduction

2. Theroretical Background

3. Method

4. Results and Discussion

5. Limitations and Conclusion

키워드

English articles specificity definiteness L1-transfer learner corpus second language acquisition Korean EFL learners