한국어 학습자의 이야기 만들기 담화 구성 연구

A Study on Story-making Discourse Construction by Korean Language Learner

This study aims to make a microscopic description of the way Korean language learners make contents to construct one consistent story discourse following given task conditions and formalize the contents into target language discourse by focusing on the Chinese learners’ verbal utterance induced by a story-making task. Given the task condition in which only partial information is available in image which constructs the story contents, learners should understand individual image contents and utter them into target language. Moreover, they should organize such utterances in discourse so that they can be connected into consistent contents. As such discourse construction is realized in the frame of discourse formation and contents creation restricted by task condition, it is noticeable that it can show an aspect of variation in learner’s language which takes specific task condition as a variable. In this light, the present study aims to observe how the conditions involved in designing and executing the story-making tasks get interpreted by learners to form the basis of oral production, and define the components that make the learner’s style of oral production which are unique to the story-making task. It is seen that learners interpret the story-making task as ‘a task of speaking the content of the story in a consistent and complete form in defined conditions’. Therefore, the inference on background information from the perspective of the content structure and the cohesive connection of short sentences based on conjunctive adverbs from the perspective of the microscopic discourse structure turn out to be principal components that constitute the style of production in a story-making task.