한국어 학습자의 연결 어미 오류 양상에 관한 연구

A Research for the Korean Learners` errors in the connecting ending words: Focused on the error analysis different mother tongue

The errors of learners are inevitable components in the course of learning a second language. These have been the main concern of the researchers and the teachers for a long time. The early research noted that the errors were negative, but gradually the researchers recognized that they were natural part of language learning process. The research for errors can be the basis of understanding the process of learning target language, and it will give a clue to prepare a proper contents and teaching methods. Also it can provide learner-centered teaching methods and communicative methods in the Korean language education. This research studied that the aspect of the Korean language connecting ending words with subjects who speak Japanese, Chinese, English, Russian and several different language speakers as their mother tongue, examining their writing samples and in their writing and recorded speech data. As a result, the frequent errors the subjects made were not influenced by their first language. But the subjects simply substitute similar words which they think the meanings are the same. Furthermore, the research found that substituting similar connecting ending words was the result of misunderstanding of the meaning between the two simple sentences when the subjects combined them. Therefore, the teachers have to pay more attention to understand the learners' errors. The research on the errors throughout analyzing the writing, recorded speech data and other objective materials will make it possible to teach Korean language systematically and efficiently. And this research would be a basis to realize a learner-centered education by adapting it in the fields of developing text, syllabus design, and preparing standard of evaluation.