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Korean Lexical and Syntactic Traits of Philippine Marriage-Immigrant Women through Spontaneous Language Sample Analysis

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2011, 12(1), pp.69-88
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

김성수 1 이상경 2 안효자 1

1동신대학교
2단국대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to examine the Korean language acquisition of Philippine marriage-immigrant women (PMIW) through the spontaneous language sample analysis. The subjects were 15 PMIW who have lived in Korea for more than five years and 15 Korean married women. Using the interviewing conversational method, we collected participants’ spontaneous utterances and analyzed the data with 5 measures: NTW, NDW, MLU-m, MLU-w, and PCS. Using the t-test, we determined significant differences between two groups for each measures. The results were shown that the performances of PIMW in all 5 measures(NTW, NDW, MLU-m, MLU-w, and PCS) were significantly lower than those of control group. Conclusionally, this results indicated that although PIMW have learned Korean language as a second language for a quite long period, they have still difficulties in speaking Korean language with semantically various words and syntactically long and complex sentences. This conclusion could suggest that clinicians should plan and continuously monitor to facilitate the Philippine marriage-immigrant women’s abilities in the lexical and syntactic areas.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.