Korean Drama Fever--Expanding English Lexicon through Watching English-Subtitled K-Dramas: The Case of Non-Compositional Multi-Word Expressions

This research was prompted by the phenomenon of binge-watching Korean television series (K-drama) amongst college students in Taiwan, where English as a foreign language (EFL) is a required course. The researcher-teacher sought to create a pedagogically useful list of the frequent semantically non-c...

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Published inJournal of English Teaching Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 269 - 285
Main Author Hsu, Wenhua
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Journal of English Teaching 01.06.2023
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Computational Linguistics
Drama
English (Second Language)
Foreign Countries
Korean
Language Teachers
Phrase Structure
Programming (Broadcast)
Required Courses
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Semantics
Teaching Methods
Television
Undergraduate Students
Vocabulary Development
Word Frequency
Word Lists
Taiwan
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Summary:This research was prompted by the phenomenon of binge-watching Korean television series (K-drama) amongst college students in Taiwan, where English as a foreign language (EFL) is a required course. The researcher-teacher sought to create a pedagogically useful list of the frequent semantically non-compositional multi-word expressions (MWEs) for EFL learners with K-drama fever who often binge-watch K-dramas. A corpus of 25+ million English subtitled words derived from 240 K-dramas across different genres was compiled. Based upon a set of criteria (frequency, range, meaningfulness, well-formedness, non-decomposability and semantic non-compositionality), a total of 326 MWEs of 2 to 6 words were selected. The 326 phrasal expressions are mostly composed of the first 3000 word families. As with other individual word lists, it is hoped that the listing of the non-compositional MWEs may serve as a reference for General English teachers.
ISSN:2087-9628