A Study on the Use of Korean Conjunctive Adverbs in Korean Learners by Analyzing Their Writing - Focusing on Frequency Information -

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the information of types and tokens of conjunctive adverbs in written language of korean learners. To accomplish this purpose, 270 writing discourses of Korean learners from beginner, intermediate, and advance level takers, 90 from each, were selected from 32-34 Test of Proficiency in Korean(TOPIK) written corpus. Types and tokens of conjunctive adverbs were measured from total of 27,405 eojuls. Differences in each word class of conjunctive adverbs, based on proficiency groups, were evaluated. The list of conjunctive adverbs of high frequencies was shown. The result of the analysis are as follow: First, the ratio of types and tokens of conjunctive adverbs in total vocabulary was 0.45% and 1.3%, respectively. Second, the types and tokens of conjunctive adverbs were increased according to the proficiency in Korean. The differences of types and tokens of conjunctive adverbs based on proficiency were significant only between advance level group and others. These results shows that the acquisition and use of conjunctive adverbs from intermediate to advance levels are significant. Third, only a limited number of types of conjunctive adverbs were used with high frequencies in the word list. That means Korean learners used several conjunctive adverbs repetitively in comparison to Korean native speakers. The results from this study could be used for analysing the use of vocabulary in written discourses of korean learners and study Korean writing education methods for Korean learners.