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Mother Language Influence on the Learning Process of the Passive Form -Based on a study of Korean Japanese learners-

  • Journal of Japanese Culture
  • 2020, (84), pp.253-267
  • DOI : 10.21481/jbunka..84.202002.253
  • Publisher : The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : December 30, 2019
  • Accepted : January 30, 2020
  • Published : February 29, 2020

EUN JEONG SHIN 1

1동덕여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The passive form in Japanese is typically one of the most difficult items for individuals with Korean as their mother language to learn, and even advanced Japanese learners sometimes have limited understanding of passive sentences. With this background, this study aimed to investigate perceptions of the Japanese language passive form by individuals with Korean as their mother language; determine how such perceptions influence acquisition of the Japanese language passive form; and devise a proper teaching-learning scheme for the Japanese language passive form. The analysis showed that the prototype image of the Japanese language passive form possessed by Japanese learners with Korean as their mother language was “to be moved by something other than a subject,” which is very similar to Korean passive sentence structure. Such influence of the mother language interrupts passive sentence formation with intransitive verbs, so a student who has no difficulty interpreting a Japanese sentence with an intransitive verb could have difficulty writing a passive sentence in Japanese with the same intransitive verb. Furthermore, since the concept of a relation between doer and subject influenced by the action of the doer is not fully understood by Japanese learners, they also have a very limited understanding of intransitive verbs and indirect passive sentences. Therefore, it would be necessary to devise an education plan to teach verbal functions of these passive sentences using various sample sentences from the perspective of comparison/contrast, rather than solely focusing on the linguistic structure of Japanese, a major concern of Japanese textbooks.

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