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A Study on L3(the third language) Acquisition Researches Conducted in Korea and China ― A Focus on the Current Conditions and Results of Researches

Tae Eun Kim 1

1연세대학교 언어정보연구원

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ABSTRACT

L3 acquisition(third language acquisition, TLA) is fundamentally different from L2 acquisition(second language acquisition, SLA), since TLA involves more than 3 languages at least. While many TLA researches have been conducted and have suggested various hypotheses in the western countries, it seems that TLA researches did not step into a mature stage yet and many studies have been conducted with the viewpoint of SLA in the eastern countries. Striving to enhance TLA research in Korea, the current conditions and results of TLA researches in Korea and China are introduced in this study. The statistics of TLA researches, which have been conducted in Korea so far, were collected from DBpia, RISS, and KISS. The statistics of Chinese researches were collected from CNKI. The Korean TLA studies usually treated Korean as L3 and English as L2, while many Chinese TLA studies show that their L1 is one of their minority languages, L2 is Mandarin, and L3 is English. Many Korean studies focus on verifying the western hypotheses for the further step of TLA research, while many Chinese studies still seem to stay at the beginning stage of TLA, even though the number of Chinese TLA studies is much larger than the number of Korean TLA studies.

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