모국어 화자-학습자 간 피동 사용양상 연구

Study on the usage patterns of passive voice in corpus among native speakers and Korean learners: Focusing on meaning of verbs and passive functions

This study aims at identifying differences between native speakers and Korean learners in the usage patterns of passive voice and analyzing Korean learner’s asymmetrical and functional errors of passive forms. Passive voice in Korean is grammatically important research field, and in practice, many Korean learners have difficulties acquiring it and commonly make errors in it. Current passive voice education for foreign learners, however, mainly focuses on the transformation of active forms into its passive forms and the irregularity of passive verbs that combine with passive suffix such as ‘-i, hi, ri, gi’. Therefore, it does not cover the asymmetrical characteristics according to its semantic classes of polysemous verbs and its functional aspects. As a result, it is overlooked that Korean learners tend to simply memorize passive forms as its active pairs as a vocabulary, resulting in limited usage of specific passive expressions or semantic and functional errors. Firstly, this study compares the actual usage patterns between native speakers and Korean learners focusing on the meaning of verbs and classifies verbs into three groups according each group’s characteristics, and presents implications. Also, this study analyzes learner’s usage patterns and errors in terms of asymmetrical characteristics of passive voice and atypical passive function. It is expected the study can be used as a material for enhancing the understanding of Korean learners in passive voices by focusing on its meaning and function.