• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 영어를 모국어로 사용하지 않는 사람들에 대한 영어 관사 오류에 관한 연구로서, 우리나라와 같은 관사 체계가 없는 상황의 영어학습자들에게는 제2 언어(L2)인 영어 관사 체계를 습득하는 데에는 상당한 시간뿐 만 아니라 수많은 시행착오와 오류를 겪게 되어 영어학습자들은 관사를 정확하게 사용하는데 더욱 어려움을 겪게 된다. 그러나 영어 관사 체계 습득에 있어 학습자가 초보에서 고급 단계에 이르는 동안 겪게 되는 수많은 오류와 실수가 무수히 반복하는 것처럼 보이지만, 사실 학습자는 자기 나름대로 외국어에 대한 언어 체계를 구축하는 과정이라 한다. 학습자의 발화에서 발생하는 관사 오류를 분석함으로써 어떤 오류가 얼마나 빈번하게 발생하게 되는지 또한 그러한 오류가 단순히 모국어의 영향에서 비롯된 것인지 아니면 모국어와 영어 사이에 나타나는 전이 현상 때문인지에 관한 연구 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 연구에 참여한 학습자들의 영작문을 분석한 결과, 영어학습자들은 특히 정관사(the)와 부정관사(a/an)의 사용에서 많은 오류를 보이는 것으로 나타나고 있다. 이러한 분석 결과 통해서 영어학습자들을 대상으로 영어 글쓰기를 지도할 때는 무관사(zero) 보다는 정관사(the)나 부정관사(a/an)에 대한 교육에 더욱 초점을 맞추어진 지도가 매우 필요하다.

• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.43-59
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• 2023

This study aims to compare the structures of light verb constructions (LVCs) taking decision as the deverbal noun in Malaysian English, British English and American English. A general corpus made up of Internet forum threads from Lowyat.Net, was created to represent Malaysian English while the British National Corpus (BNC) and Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) were used to represent the supervarieties. Light verbs make and take are found to be heading deverbal noun decision. Differences are observed in the use of articles. The frequency of Malaysian English LVCs without article is the highest while supervarieties LVCs prefer indefinite article. The high occurrences of LVCs without articles in Malaysian English can be attributed to the influence from Malaysian substrate languages. Findings also show that descriptive adjective is the most frequently used modifier in all three varieties of English. This suggests the standard LVC structure, comprising a light verb, the indefinite article, and a deverbal noun is no longer rigidly adhered to even among the native speakers of English.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.61-85
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• 2006

The purpose of the present study is to compare Korean EFL learners' speech corpus (i.e. oral productions) with their composition corpus (i.e. written productions). Four college students participated in the study. The composition corpus was collected through a writing assignment, and the speech corpus was gathered by audio-taping their oral presentations. The results of the data analysis indicate that (i) As for error frequency, young adult low-intermediate Korean EFL learners showed high frequency in determiners (mostly, indefinite articles), vocabulary (mostly, semantic errors), and prepositions. The frequency order did not show much difference between the speech corpus and the composition corpus; and (ii) When comparing the oral productions with the written productions, there were not many differences between them in terms of the contents, a style (i.e., colloquial vs. literary), vocabulary selection, and error types and frequency. Therefore, it is assumed that the proficiency in oral presentation of EFL learners at this learning stage heavily depends on how much/how well they are able to write. In other words, EFL learners' writing and speaking skills are closely co-related. It implies that the teacher does not need to separate teaching how to speak from teaching how to write. The teacher may use the same methods or strategies to help the learners improve their English speaking and writing skills. Furthermore, it will be more effective to teach writing before speaking since they have more opportunities to write than speak in the EFL contexts.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2013

Objectives : This study was designed to evaluate clinical evidence of acupuncture treatment for peripheral facial palsy in South Korea. Methods : All process was independently proceeded by two investigators. Literature search was performed in 9 databases from their inception to February 2013. Searched reports was twice excluded for title, abstract and body. And then, data extract and analysis was done before assessing risk of bias by Cochrane Handbook. Results : 10 randomized controlled trials(RCT) were finally included. 4 RCT handled postauricular pain with facial palsy. All articles at least used in combination with two treatments. Interventions like pharmacopuncture, electroacupuncture, scalp acupuncture etcetera were conducted as treatment to evaluate efficacy, and some study reported advantageous effects of treatment group compared to baseline or control group. Adverse events didn't referd to in any studies. In assessing risk of bias, indefinite and uncertain information made all included trials to have a high risk of bias. Conclusions : Because of methodological deficit, there is no sufficient evidence to allow any conclusion about the efficacy of acupuncture for peripheral facial palsy. Therefore, well designed trials with high quality is needed from now on.