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The Usage of the Japanese Conjunction -to by Korean Japanese Learners: Focusing on Factual Use

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2017, (53), pp.75-94
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

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1東京学芸大学

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ABSTRACT

This paper attempts to clarify the usage of the Japanese conjunction -to by intermediate and advanced-level Korean Japanese learners(Korean Japanese learners), by comparing it with usage by native speakers of Japanese, focusing on factual use. The results of the analysis are as follows. Korean Japanese learners use factual use of -to five times less than do native speakers of Japanese. Furthermore, Korean Japanese learners only use the discovery and trigger meanings of -to, and they do not use its continuation and revelation meanings. This probably results from the influence of their mother tongue as well as teaching methods. In order to improve these tendencies of using -to, it is necessary to more aggressively teach the factual use of -to and to explain that even if -to has one meaning as conditional, the main feature of -to is to explain resultative parallel connections.

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