Korean EFL Learners’ Acquisition of English Prenominal Adjectival Participles

• 영문명: Korean EFL Learners’ Acquisition of English Prenominal Adjectival Participles
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Meesook Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제24호, 101~120쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.12.30

영문 초록

  In this study I investigated Korean EFL learners’ knowledge of English conflation classes of verbs, focusing on the formation of prenominal adjectival participles. Three groups of 30 learners and 1 group of 10 native speakers of English participated in the study. They rated the acceptability of prenominal adjectival participles contained in two different linguistic contexts. The results showed that the Korean EFL learners were generally sensitive to conflation classes related to the formation of prenominal adjectival participles, even though a clear-cut separation of the state-change from the non-state-change verb classes started from the intermediate learners. It suggests that Korean EFL learners’ knowledge of English conflation classes of verbs in the formation of prenominal adjectival participles improved gradually, as they increase exposure to English. In addition, the finding that the low-proficiency learners have not yet learned the state-change items as a conflation class from the non-state change items may be explained partially by L1 effect. Finally, an asymmetry between manner verbs and state-change verbs associated with prenominal adjectival participles was discussed.

목차

1. Introduction
2. Analysis of Prenominal Adjectival Participles
3. Experiment
4. Discussion and Conclusion
References
〈Appendix〉 Acceptability Judgment Task on the L2 Acquisition of Prenominal Adjectival Participles

키워드

Second Language (L2) argument structure prenominal adjectival participle conflation class state-change manner