영화에서의 다단어 표현의 역할 교육에 대한 연구

A study on the role of multiword expressions in movie English

The purpose of this paper is fourfold: (1) to observe what multiword expressions (MWEs) mean for beginning level English language learners, (2) to watch what kind of MWEs the learners prefer, (3) to find whether individual words could be functionally MWEs, and (4) to discuss if it could be possible for beginning level learners to learn MWEs. To explore the findings, one case study was conducted. Three beginning level college students participated in the experiment. The material was an American action movie, 3 Days to Kill (McG, 2014). The teacher explicitly instructed various types of MWEs based on the movie storyline while the subjects implicitly learned those MWEs. After activities, the subjects were provided with vocabulary lists. Then they had three tests done: vocabulary-recall, summaries of movie scenes, and choice of relevant vocabulary or MWEs which comprised technical vocabulary, general service vocabulary, phrases, compounds, and expressions. The results showed that the subjects subconsciously regarded exam vocabulary as linguistic units, they preferred utterance level expressions, and they functionally used individual words like ‘one-word utterance’ of L1 children. Lastly, it is possible to teach beginning level students MWEs as long as a teacher proceeds with their instructions with content like movie stories.