한국 대학생의 영작문 코퍼스에 나타난 어휘 통계분석 및 어휘수준 측정

This study aims to investigate the English writing corpus written by Korean college students by comparing a sub-corpus of the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays(LOCNESS) and a sub-corpus of British National Corpus(BNC) Sampler, Informative Genre. The first part of this paper examines several keywords of function words such as pronouns, modal auxiliaries, and content words. The results show that there are statistical differences on lexical item choices and frequencies of certain words. The second part explores a level of vocabulary of Korean university students by comparing them to native adult and university student speakers of general English through a BNC/COCA 25,000 Range program. Its analysis shows that Korean students use less number of types and family words in their writings.