중급 한국어 학습자 발화의 조사 연속 구성 연구

A Study on Intermediate-Level Korean Language Learners’ Development of Combined Particles

This study investigates frequency and accuracy of the combined particles observed in the spoken data of intermediate Korean language learners. Comparing the results of the analysis with the previous study results on beginner-level learners’ data, we tried to discover the differences that occur according to the language proficiency level. Free conversation data were collected from 6 intermediate-level learners over 6 months and a spoken corpus was constructed. As a result of collecting and analyzing a total of 132,000 word-size data, the intermediate learners used 23 types of combined particles composition 138 times in total. Of these, 72 were grammatically correct and 66 were classified as errors, resulting in an error rate of about 48.5%. This is 12.7% higher than the beginner’s error rate (35.8%), indicating that the accuracy of the combined particles is very low at the intermediate level. In Korean particle combination, case-markers and particles cannot be used as precedents. However, it seems this rule is not well established in the intermediate level as can be found through the frequent errors such as ‘을/를 도, 은/는도, 이/가도’. We stress the need for comprehensive education on particles at an appropriate time within the curriculum so that errors in the composition of combined particles in the learner’s language would not be ‘fossilized’. Through this study, it was possible to illuminate the process of learners’ grammar acquisition and its development by observing the patterns of particle combination.