Korean Learners Of English Research Articles

한국인 영어 학습자의 영어 동사구 종결성 습득 양상: 동사의 상 유형과 명사구를 중심으로

한국인 영어 학습자의 영어 동사구 종결성 습득 양상: 동사의 상 유형과 명사구를 중심으로

한국인 영어학습자의 영어 이중모음 인지 연구 : 경남방언 화자를 중심으로

한국인 영어학습자의 영어 이중모음 인지 연구 : 경남방언 화자를 중심으로

Korean English Learners’ Incorporation of Native and Nonnative English Teacher Feedback

Korean English Learners’ Incorporation of Native and Nonnative English Teacher Feedback

한국인 영어 학습자의 영어 동사구 종결성 인식에 관한 연구 : 전치사 to를 중심으로

This study investigates how Korean English learners and native English speakers interpret English verb phrase telicity according to the preposition to. 241 Korean students and 37 native English speakers participated in this study. Experimental tasks were conducted which included three proficiency levels of L2 learners (beginner, intermediate and advanced), as well as native English speakers. The results of this study showed how learners and native speakers differentiate among English verb phrase telicity according to the p reposition to and indicated that the way most Korean English learners interpret English verb phrases is influenced by Korean. In addition, the results showed the precise aspect of interpretation of English verb phrase telicity.

Investigating Language Learning Strategies in English Conversation Using Non-hierarchical Cluster Analysis

This paper on language learner strategies utilizes a little used quantitative, datamining technique called cluster analysis to investigate characteristics of groups of South Korean learners of English. After 71 students in three first-year university liberal arts English conversation courses completed the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL), and the number of learning strategies was reduced from 50 to 26 based on standard deviation (SD) results, the non-hierarchical (K-means) 3-cluster procedure was applied to the self-reported data. Following statistical analysis, each of the three cluster groups could be profiled according to achievement scores. At this point, six items emerged as particularly meaningful with regard to the latter, including direct strategies (a memory one and a cognitive one) and indirect strategies (two affective and two metacognitive). These strategies and their significance with reference to the local context as well as results previously reported in the literature are discussed. Finally, limitations of the study and implications for future research using cluster analysis are reported.

A Study on Perception of English Verb Phrase Telicity by Korean English Learners: Focus on the Simple Past Tense of English Verbs,

A Study on Perception of English Verb Phrase Telicity by Korean English Learners: Focus on the Simple Past Tense of English Verbs,

Perception of Korean Vowels by English and Mandarin Learners of Korean: Effects of Acoustic Similarity Between L1 and L2 Sounds and L2 Experience

Perception of Korean Vowels by English and Mandarin Learners of Korean: Effects of Acoustic Similarity Between L1 and L2 Sounds and L2 Experience

Spectral patterns of the American English diphthong /aɪ/ as a function of coda voicing produced by native Korean speakers

This study aimed to investigate how native speakers of Korean who learned English as a second language realize spectral differences in the American English diphthong /ai/ as a function of coda voicing. Ten Korean learners of English and eight native speakers of American English participated in a production experiment. The monosyllabic words “bite” (/bait/) and “bide” (/baid/) were read along with filler words in isolation and in a carrier sentence. The native group demonstrated significantly smaller F1 and larger F2 before /t/ than /d/ both in the nucleus /a/ and in the offglide /i/ (Moreton 2004). The learner group did not show statistically significant spectral changes in the nucleus and the offglide. Also, the native group significantly reduced the temporal distance between the nucleus and the offglide, and showed spectral peripheralization in the offglide before /t/ than /d/ (Pycha and Dahan 2016). However, the learner group did not show native-like reduction of the temporal distance between the nucleus and the offglide and spectral peripheralization in the offglide. Although the non-native speakers in this study exhibited some durational changes as a function of coda voicing, they did not learn the fine phonetic details regarding the gestural timing and spectral patterns in the diphthong. A considerable degree of individual variation in the learner group and speaking context effects were also found. It was interpreted that the Hyperarticulation hypothesis (Thomas 2000; Moreton 2004) and the Gestural Timing hypothesis (Pycha and Dahan 2016) could provide indices modelling the non-native phenomena found in this study as not attaining native-like phonetic values and gradual approach to the values concerning the spectral and durational aspects in /ai/ as a function of coda voicing. (Ewha Womans University)

Exploring patterns of article use by advanced Korean learners of English and Spanish

AbstractIt has been widely recognized in the field of second language acquisition that language learners tend to struggle with the acquisition of articles when their first languages (L1) do not have a similar linguistic system. Thus, various L1 effects on the usage of articles have been studied. In this context, the present study examined how the same L1 (i. e., Korean) would influence article usage in two different languages (i. e., English and Spanish). Specifically, advanced learners of English and advanced learners of Spanish performed a task of consecutive interpreting from Korean to English and Spanish, respectively, and their article usage patterns in English and Spanish were analyzed for comparison. The results show that both groups exhibited high levels of accuracy in the use of English and Spanish articles while major error types were article omission and article misuse, which can be partly attributed to L1 effects. As for differences, the participants in the English group tended to employ other determiners instead of articles, such as possessives, quantifiers, and demonstratives. In Spanish, the tendency to over-use definite articles was stronger than the English group. These differences may be related to certain consecutive interpreting strategies as well as differences in pedagogical approaches of teaching English and Spanish in Korea. Detailed patterns in the use of articles in English and Spanish are compared, and their implications are discussed.

Asymmetries in the perception and production of english grapheme <o> by korean learners of english

The current study investigated the impact of orthography on perception and production of English grapheme in foreign language acquisition. Also, the study purported to provide a test bed for the traditional assumption that perception precedes production. To this end, perception and production tasks of English words with the grapheme divided into pretest and posttest were conducted to 31 Korean learners of English. The stimulus words were 30 English words with English grapheme . The perception task was a multiple-choice identification test. The production task was to read the stimulus words and the production of the participants was recorded with the Goldwave program. After the pretest, training was held for 2 weeks and the posttest was administered. The results showed that orthography has an impact on perceiving and producing English grapheme across the tasks and the tests since the participants tended to replace [o]-quality vowels for the English target vowels. Specifically, the target vowels were frequently misperceived either as [o] or as [oU] across the pretest and posttest in the perception task. In the production task, however, target vowels tended to be mispronounced as [o]. The substitution of the target vowels with [o] whereby the second element of the target [oU] was omitted was especially salient across the tests. As for the relationship between perception and production, the precedence of perception over production was not found either in the pretest or in the posttest. Instead, an asymmetry between perception and production was detected since production accuracy tended to be significantly better than perception accuracy after training. Given that training on the target vowels of English grapheme yielded production improvements for the most of the target vowels but not perception improvements, perception clearly diverged from production. Thus, L2 training programs should consider the fact that perception is mainly involved in the auditory system while production mainly in the motor system.

4차 산업혁명이 한국인 영어 학습자의 기본적 의사소통능력 발달에 미치는 영향에 관한 비판적 검토

The purpose of this study is to theoretically evaluate the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (e.g., machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL)) on English education in South Korea. Few studies have investigated to what extent ML/DL technologies have instructional potential for Korean English learners’ development of English proficiency. To this end, this study deals with the four research issues by extensively reviewing previous literature on computer science and SLA theories. First, this study introduces several well-known concepts and architectures of ML/DL for the following discussions. Second, the study critically examines the opinions of those who claim that recent progress in machine translation can dramatically reduce the need for foreign language learning. Third, this study highlights the significance of basic communicative competence in English learning contexts in South Korea, which―as specified by the components and principles of construction grammar―enables Korean English learners to generate sentence-level utterances without resorting to memorized formulaic expressions. Finally, this study presents three types of English learning applications built upon ML/DL techniques whose validities are evaluated from a perspective of basic communicative competence. As a final remark, this study suggests that ML/DL techniques guided by the principles and components of construction grammar should be applied to Korean English learning contexts as a way to develop their basic communicative competence in English.

The Phonetics and Phonology of English Casual Speech: Learning from L2 Learners

This paper examines processes of “connected” or “casual” speech in second language pronunciation, focusing on the speech of Korean learners of English. The paper begins with the point of view of Articulatory Phonology, which argues that many assimilations and deletions in casual speech are the result of overlap between articulatory gestures. Examples from English and Russian illustrate gestural overlap. Further examples are provided from a more detailed phonetic study of processes of nasalization and voicing assimilation in Korean and Korean-accented English (Zsiga 2011). The Korean-English data show evidence of gradient gestural overlap in voicing assimilation, and in some instances of partial nasal assimilation, supporting the Articulatory Phonology approach. Many instances of categorical nasal substitution were also found, however. It is argued that a more traditional phonological feature-changing analysis better accounts for the categorical changes. Both Articulatory Phonology and traditional feature-based phonology are required to account for the full set of data.

Alternatives to Long-distance Wh-movement in L2 English by Korean Learners

This article investigated Korean EFL learners’ interlanguage with regard to the production of complex wh-questions employing long-distance wh-movement. It asked what alternative structures Korean learners of English would produce in their attempts to make complex wh-questions and whether and how alternative structures would change as learners

A corpus-based study on the use of relative pronouns by Korean learners of English

A corpus-based study on the use of relative pronouns by Korean learners of English

Instructional Effects on Voice Onset Time Perception in L2 Speech Segmentation

This study examined the effects of instruction on the English word boundary perception of Korean learners of English. The focus of this study was the appropriate use of Voice Onset Time (VOT) of English voiceless stops (p, t, k) in word initial (e.g., top) and after word initial s position (e.g., stop) signaling the presence and absence of a word boundary before the stop consonant. There were 48 participants in the study, who were assessed three times: before instruction (pre-test), immediately after instruction (post-test), and five weeks after instruction (delayed post-test). Results revealed that participants’ perceptual accuracy improved significantly in both VOT positions in segmentation after instruction. However, the improvement was more prominent in word initial than after word initial s. Among word initial stop consonants, velar stops were the most difficult to acquire, while after initial s, bilabial stops were the most difficult and alveolar stops were the easiest to acquire.

The Acquisition and Development of the Korean Adverbial Particle -ey by L1 English Learners of Korean

The Acquisition and Development of the Korean Adverbial Particle -ey by L1 English Learners of Korean

A study on the acquisition and development of the Korean adverbial particle -(u)lo by L1 English learners of Korean

A study on the acquisition and development of the Korean adverbial particle -(u)lo by L1 English learners of Korean

Nonnative raters’ perceptions and judgments of Korean English learners’ fluency and pronunciation level

Nonnative raters’ perceptions and judgments of Korean English learners’ fluency and pronunciation level

The influence of language proficiency on processing reduced relative clauses by Korean learners of English

The current study investigates the late second language (L2) learners’ reading behaviors when they process temporarily ambiguous reduced relative clauses in English, using both on-line self-paced reading task and off-line grammaticality judgment task. Importantly, it also explores how L2 proficiency affects the learners’ processing patterns during on-line comprehension. Results obtained from both tasks revealed that the syntactic processing significantly differed depending on L2 proficiency, indicating only the higher-proficiency learners were able to recover from garden-paths. This study also has an implication on the relation between linguistic knowledge and performance in L2 processing.

Project Sportscaster: Media Assisted Language Learning Activity to Assess Korean English Learners Intonation of Sports Announcer Talk

Project Sportscaster: Media Assisted Language Learning Activity to Assess Korean English Learners Intonation of Sports Announcer Talk