전자우편 의사소통이 언어형태 습득에 미치는 효과

The effects of email communication upon the acquisition of the forms of language

  The recent advances in the Internet, in particular, E-mail, have provided the learners with the opportunities for learning how to communicate in English with individuals around the world. The objective of this paper is to find out how L2 learners naturally use language forms in the context of communication via Emails as well as how they acquire the language forms of the target language by recognizing grammars and linguistic characteristics out of the E-mail pen pal’s language input. For this purpose, this paper selects a student from U high school, K, who happened to get acquainted with a male student from British Columbia, Canada, on the Internet, and have exchanged Emails with him for five months. After analyzing the contents of the exchanged Emails, this study reaches the conclusion that electric communication can be an effective tool of language learning when the learner focuses her attention to the forms of language, such as grammar and vocabulary.