일본어 상급 학습자의 접속사 운용 실태 연구 - 모어화자와 비교를 통하여 -

Abstract

The role of the conjunction in the developing of the writings of arguments and opinions is vitally important. It is necessary for an advanced learner to be able to cope with such types of writing, because they are likely to be required to have the ability to write such statements and to write opinion essays. Therefore, this paper investigates the situational use of the conjunctions in the opinion essays of advanced learners and then compared and analyzed them with that of native speakers. There was no significant difference between both learners’ and native speakers’ use of conjunctions in numerical terms, but there were differences in some usage patterns. First of all, the use of high difficulty conjunctions was considered low for the advanced learner and the use of conversational conjunctions was noticeable. As we search the distinction according to a classified category, the learner had the highest number of ‘logical’ conjunctions. This is because the learner has actively used them, even if the native speaker omits the conjunction. Additionally, in this study, the learner did not use the conjunctions of ‘theorem’ and ‘understanding’ effectively. Most learners highly depend on initially learned conjunctions and may lack a full understanding of the various usages of these words. Lastly, the conjunction of ‘conversion’ was rarely used by learners and this could be viewed as a lack of understanding of the syntax that is used in opinion essays. Through these features, it was confirmed that advanced Japanese learners generally fell short in their ability to use conjunctions according to this genre of writing. Therefore when working with opinion essays , learning the proper way of operating with conjunctions is needed, separately from vocabulary learning.