한국인의 영어 시제·상 습득 연구

The Acquisition of English Tense and Aspect by Korean Learners

The purpose of this study is to detect the influence of L1 in Korean learners’ acquiring English tense and aspect and to make some suggestions for teaching and learning English as a second language. 111 Korean students and 18 native speakers participated in the experiment. The tense and aspect of English tested in this experiment were limited to past tense and perfect aspect. Also, a placement test was performed to group the participants into three levels (beginning, intermediate, and advanced). The result through the experiment was that Korean students obtained higher scores in the simple past tense use, but obtained lower scores in the perfect use. In Korean, there is a distinct past tense ending ‘-었-’, and it indicated the event happened in the past. Therefore, Korean students could associate it with ‘-ed’ in English and show higher scores in the simple past use. It was concluded from the results that the first language of EFL learners has an influence on the acquisition of tense and aspect of English. Therefore, the first language of learners must be considered before English is taught and learned, and the teaching models considering learners’ first language have to be made and introduced into the classroom.