| 초록 |
Lee, Yumi. (2019). A study on the use of expressive sentence patterns according to Korean learners proficiency. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 27(3), 23-51. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between Korean learners use of expressive sentence patterns and their proficiency. A total of 75 learners of Korean as a second language (KSL) participated in the study. The participants were divided into three groups: beginner (N=25), intermediate (N=25), and advanced (N=25). The participants were asked to respond to a Discourse Completion Test (DCT), and to take a C-test on proficiency. The DCT included two questions for each discourse: suggestion, order, request, apology, refusal, and wish scenarios. In order to examine learners use of expressive sentence patterns, this study considered both types and tokens. The analysis of Spearmans Rho revealed a low positive relationship between learners use of expressive sentence patterns and their proficiency. Moreover, Fisher's exact test results showed that there were significant differences among the three groups in the use of expressive sentence patterns for order and refusal. The study showed that learners increased their use of polite expressions in the advanced group, and indicated that proficiency is associated with pragmatic knowledge of expressive sentence patterns. |
