산출실험을 통한 한국인 성인 학습자의 영어 관계절 습득 연구

• Published in: 영어학연구 Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 99 - 114
• Main Author: 조수근
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 한국영어학학회 01.12.2014; The English Linguistics Society Of Korea
• Subjects: 영어와문학; English relative clauses; order of acquisition; sentence combining test; acquisition of relative clauses
• ISSN: 1598-9453; 2636-1183
• DOI: 10.17960/ell.2014.20.3.006

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the acquisition of English relative clauses by Korean adult learners using an production test and to determine the source of errors by analyzing error types made by Korean learners. To achieve these goals, a sentence combining test was administered on 20 Korean speakers. Thirty test sentences were created according to six types of relative clauses for a quantitative study. In this study, we found that the order of difficulty in the acquisition of relative clauses is as follows: subject < direct object = possessive < object of preposition < indirect object < object of comparison. We also found that there is statistically significant difference in regard to the order. In addition, we found that the contrasts in the acquisition of English relative clauses by Korean learners are mostly attributed to the fact that the processing difficulty of the gap in the relative clauses increases with its structural distance from its head according to the Structural Distance Hypothesis suggested by O’Grady(1997). KCI Citation Count: 1