영어사 적용의 유익성: 영어교육과 관련하여

Advantages of the Application of English History to English Education.

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The history of English can be a basis for English education. This paper explains various phenomena of present-day English from the three perspectives of the history of the English language phonologically, morphologically, and syntactically. The following are discussed and explained: the leveling of the unstressed vowels in Middle English, Great Vowel Shift in Early Modern English, the null-subject parameter (the so-called impersonal verb), the change of word order, the difference between get and be passive, and the colloquial preterit. Through these explanations, the advantages of the knowledge of the history of English are pointed out. Firstly, English students can get benefits from its knowledge, for various phenomena of present-day English, especially many irregularities of Modern English can be explained to them, not just described and taught. Secondly, English teachers can get benefits from the knowledge of the history of English, for it provides them with the basis to teach English to their students by explaining, not just by describing. This also gives them confidence that they have a successful tool while teaching English. Therefore, the knowledge of the history of English is an advantage for both English learners and teachers.