한국어와 영어의 차이에 따른 입력처리 교수가 한국 중학교 학습자들의 wh-의문문 습득에 미치는 영향

• Published in: 언어학 Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 49 - 71
• Main Authors: 조우영, Cho Wooyoung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 대한언어학회 30.03.2024
• Subjects: Input Processing Instruction; L2 acquisition; sentence complexity; structural distance; wh-questions; wh의문문; 구조적 거리; 문장 복잡성; 언어학; 입력처리교수법; 제 2언어 습득
• ISSN: 1225-7141; 2671-6283
• DOI: 10.24303/lakdoi.2024.32.1.49

This paper explores how Korean learners acquire English wh-questions and which syntactic rules are involved, and whether Input Processing Instruction (PI) can facilitate Korean students' acquisition of English wh-questions. The acquisition patterns of English wh-questions by 50 middle school students were measured through Grammaticality Judgement Test (GJT), and PI lessons were given to 25 out of the 50 students in four 15-minutes for two weeks. The major findings of this experimental study are as follows: (1) Korean middle school students preferred subject wh-questions over object ones both in simple and embedded clauses, and sentence complexity such as embedding depth and preposition stranding greatly influenced their judgements. (2) PI was effective in that students improved significantly in GJT after short-term lessons. This study concludes that Korean middle school students have not yet fully acquired syntactic properties of English wh-questions and thus PI can benefit L2 learners in the early stage of interlanguage development.