초급 한국어 학습자의 양태 문법 활용 양상

Modality Development of Beginners of Korean

This study aims to analyze the modality development of beginners of Korean and discuss the development order of the modality. The modality is a grammatical category that indicates speaker’s subjective judgment and attitude toward the proposition that has highly semantic and pragmatic usefulness in communication. In this study free conversational speech of 8 beginners of Korean were collected regularly for 5 months and examined the frequency of use and the number of speakers of modal grammar. As a results, among the various grammatical items, ‘-고 싶다’, ‘-(으)ㄹ 것이다’(의향), ‘-(으)ㄹ 수 있다/ 없다’, ‘-아/어 보다’, ‘-아야/어야 되다/하다’ were uttered relatively frequently, in the early periods in about 3months after the beginning of Korean learning, and about six months after the beginning of the Korean learning, -는/(으)ㄴ/(으)ㄹ 것 같다’, ‘-(으)ㄹ 것이다’(추측), ‘-아/ 어 주다’ were uttered by almost all learners. This modality development was not completely consistent with the order of learning. This study is meaningful in that it provides important information needed to determine the order of modality.