초등영어 교사용 지도서와 교실영어자료의 코퍼스 분석을 통한 시공간 전치사 ‘at’, ‘on’, ‘in’의 의미 사용 특성 연구

A corpus-based study on the uses of prepositions of time and place ‘at’, ‘on’, and ‘in’ in teachers guide to primary English textbook and classroom English materials

The present study is designed to explore the uses of three prepositions of time and place at , on , and in in the texts from the primary English teachers guides and classroom English materials by constructing and analyzing the corpus from the texts. For the purpose of the study, the framework for the analysis of prepositional meanings was developed, each preposition from the corpus data was analyzed according to the frame, and their frequencies were compared with the data from COCA. The findings of the analysis are as follows: three prepositions showed relatively higher frequencies in their two to three primary meanings than in their other categories of meanings; each preposition was used in temporal meaning less than in spatial meaning; three prepositions occurred in relatively simple structural forms. Based on the findings, it was argued that the systematic semantic approach to prepositional meanings is advisable in understanding the uses of spatiotemporal prepositions. Along with the argument, the collocational approach was suggested for teaching and learning prepositions in primary English classrooms in the conclusion.