Korean learners’ interpretation on English dative alternations: An experimental study focusing on goal-DOC (Double Object Construction) (영어의 여격 교체 현상에 대한 한국인 학습자들의 이해 양상: 대상자 중심 여격 구문 기반 실험연구)

Kim, Dal Eun (김달은); Ji-Hye Kim (김지혜)

doi:10.18095/meeso.2019.20.3.117

Korean learners’ interpretation on English dative alternations: An experimental study focusing on goal-DOC (Double Object Construction)

Modern English Education
Abbr : MEESO
2019, 20(3), pp.117-128
DOI : 10.18095/meeso.2019.20.3.117
Publisher : The Modern English Education Society
Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Language Teaching
Received : June 12, 2019
Accepted : August 14, 2019
Published : August 31, 2019

Kim, Dal Eun ¹, Ji-Hye Kim ²

¹문막고등학교
²한국교원대학교

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the interpretations of English dative alternations by Korean learners, especially focusing on how Korean learners of English understand semantic and morphological constraints related to dative alternations. Sixty Korean learners of English participated in the experiment where they performed a grammaticality judgment task using Magnitude Estimation (ME) with English sentences representing different semantic and morphological conditions. The results demonstrated that Korean learners of English considered Prepositional Dative Constructions (PDCs) more grammatical than Double Object Constructions (DOCs) in overall sentence types and their understanding of different semantic and morphological constraints on dative alternations seems to be incomplete. The results also showed that the learners’ proficiency in English played an important role in understanding English dative alternations. Detailed discussions and pedagogical implications are presented.

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Double Object Construction/ Prepositional Dative Construction/ English Dative alternation/ Korean learners of English/ Magnitude Estimation

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