The Use of ‘Delexical Verb + Noun’ Collocations by the Korean and Chinese EFL Learners: A Corpus-Based Study

• 영문명: The Use of ‘Delexical Verb + Noun’ Collocations by the Korean and Chinese EFL Learners: A Corpus-Based Study
• 발행기관: 이화여자대학교 교과교육연구소
• 저자명: Nuan Liu Xiumin Liu Soondo Baek
• 간행물 정보: 『교과교육학연구』제26권 제6호, 545~555쪽, 전체 11쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.12.31

영문 초록

The acquisition of appropriate combinations of delexical verbs and their object nouns (e.g., make a mistake vs. do/have a mistake) is known to be difficult for L2 learners of English largely due to arbitrariness in association between the verbs and the object nouns. The researchers aimed to deepen our understanding of the nature of this learning difficulty by analyzing Korean and Chinese learners written corpora in regard to the frequency and error patterns of delexical verb + noun collocations for the six typical light verbs (do, get, give, have, make, and take). A native written corpus was used to establish the target norm for the use of the target constructions. The overall results show that both Chinese and Korean EFL learners, as compared with English L1 writers, used a limited number of target constructions repeatedly, revealing a lack of collocational knowledge as to delexical verbs. More specific analyses on individual verbs present both similarities and differences across the individual verbs and the three groups of writers, suggesting that the degree of difficulty in acquiring delexical verb + noun collocations could be modulated by the frequency with which they appear in the input and how their meanings are lexically represented in the learners’ L1.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Literature Review

Ⅲ. Method

IV. Results and Discussion

Ⅴ. Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Study

키워드

Learner Corpora Delexical Verbs Collocations Korean EFL Learners Chinese EFL Learners