2016, Vol.53, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

pISSN : 1226-7198 / eISSN : 2734-0171
https://journal.kci.go.kr/semantics

This study investigated the effect of vocabulary learning strategy education on lexical diversity of L2 Korean learners’ writings. Before the experiment, the study surveyed 136 L2 Korean learners on what vocabulary learning strategies are effective and elicited three strategies such as using idioms, having conversation with native speaker, and imaging words. The study employed 35 Chinese L2 Korean learners at TOPIK intermediate level and allocated them into 4 experiment groups with three strategy groups and a control group. Learners’ writings were collected before and after the 4 week education and were analyzed to measure lexical diversity by TTR and D_optimum average. The study found out that there was huge improvement of lexical diversity in using idioms group and having conversation with native speakers group; and the latter is even bigger. Based on the results, this study claimed that the appropriate education of vocabulary learning strategies is necessary to improve lexical diversity of L2 Korean learners’ writings.

The goal of this study is to investigate word- formation by reducing. If ‘dol(돌)’ means the young and popular singer and ‘dol’ has high productivity, it can say that ‘dol’ has the characteristics of element-only-for-word formation. ‘Chirengseu(치렝스)’ is similar to ‘beugeum(브금)’ in word-formation considered Korean syllable structure. But ‘chigingseu(치깅스)’ is a reduced word by the same way of English word-formation. The reduced word ‘beugeum’ is used for expressing the meaning of ‘Background Music’ rather than reflecting its phonetic value. In ‘beugeum’, ‘ㄱ’ is the result of trying to mark ‘ground’ and ‘rengseu’ is the result of similar trying. The formation of Bauer’s acronym ‘beugeum’ is different from Bauer’s abbreviation ‘bijiem(비지엠)’.

This study analyzed Korean language learners’ interlanguage to examine the learners’ Korean speech act of Prohibition. The analysis was made focusing especially on the learners’ mother tongue. Based on the result, this study discussed the education Korean speech act education of Prohibition according to their mother tongue(Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Vietnamese) This study is meaningful in that it was the first attempt to clarify the aspect of Korean speech act of Prohibition through analysing the interlanguage. Previous studies focused on the fact that learners produce similar errors, irrelevant of their mother tongue. But this study intended to reveal that ‘speech acts’ is largely effected by the learners’ mother culture and language, and therefore could be made by them. Among the 9 prohibition situations presented in this paper, 7 situations showed prohibition speech acts vary by their mother tongue. Therefore, an accurate analysis and understanding of the features and strategy of the learners’ interlanguage by their mother tongue will lead to speech education with higher efficiency.