Translating Past Perfect: An Effective Way to Teach EFL Learners

• 영문명: Translating Past Perfect; An Effective Way to Teach EFL Learners
• 발행기관: 한국통번역교육학회
• 저자명: Byun, Hye Won
• 간행물 정보: 『통번역교육연구』제17권 제1호, 41~63쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2019.06.30

영문 초록

The past perfect tense poses an enormous difficulty for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Not only is this due to linguistical background, but also due to the complex structure of having to understand the past auxiliary verb first and then to add the correct form of past participles. Even so, unlike present perfect where profound researchers have been conducted to apply various pedagogical implications in teaching, past perfect is often taught by grammar drill exercises and at times even lacks the opportunity to use in full sentences. This paper aimed to find out whether use of full sentences in translated method could be more effective than the usual grammar drills in EFL settings. Both the qualitative and quantitative results show that for the mid and low proficiency group, prepositional time phrase at the end of the sentences helped them understand the sequence of the events and to successfully apply past perfect in their translations. This shows that to better teach past prefect to the mid to low group of students, first, time signaling phrases should be added to the translated writing sentences and then, sentences without such phrases should be given for the students to conceptually understand the sequences.

목차

I. INTRODUCTION

II. METHOD

III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

IV. Conclusion and Further Studies

키워드

Past perfect pluperfect 과거 완료 past simple 과거시제 translated writing 번역식 작문