문법 지식의 도식화를 통한 문법 학습 난이도 예측 방안에 대한 연구

Abstract

This study aims to present a new method for predicting the difficulty levels of grammatical items, using a tree diagram that allows to visually identify which items are difficult to learn. In order to achieve this goal, first I reviewed various studies that focus on intralingual and interlingual interference to find out the conditions of interference. As a large part of the errors of foreign language learners come from the interference, the grammatical items that have a high possibility of causing it can be classified as difficult to learn. Second, I chose a Spanish grammar book used in a Korean university. Its content was divided into propositions, the minimum unit of knowledge, which were classified into a priori and a posteriori knowledge and organized in a tree diagram. It was predicted that when various pieces of grammatical knowledge show a parallel or vertical relationship in the diagram, they have a high possibility of causing intralingual interference, and according to the result of the analysis, this prediction turned out to be partly correct. It was foreseen that when the priori knowledge that the learners have obtained in the acquisition or learning of the mother tongue or second language, coincide partly with the knowledge that has to be learned, the interlingual interference can occur. According to the result of the analysis, this prediction turned out to be correct. This study has limitations as it was conducted without learner error analysis. In other words, the validity of the method presented in this study has not been objectively demonstrated. For this reason, in the follow-up study it is necessary to compare learner errors with the diagram to check its validity.