Soook Kwon

This paper reports the result of a corpus analysis of the ordering distribution of English main and adverbial clauses used by Korean learners of English. In English, adverbial clauses can both precede and follow the main clause, but in Korean, they must precede the main clause. To investigate whether L1 (Korean) distributional pattern of main and adverbial clauses influences the use of L2 (English) adverbial clauses, three semantically different adverbial clauses (e.g., conditional, temporal, an

This study examines whether explicit reading strategy instruction has a significant effect in invoking foreign language learners' metacognitive awareness and perceived use of reading strategies when reading for academic purposes in English. Using MARSI (Mokhtari & Reichard, 2002), an instrument designed to measure the metacognitive reading strategies as an assessment tool, 60 Korean EFL university students completed a pre-survey before instruction and a post-survey after instruction. The results

The present study examines whether significant differences exist between two groups of foreign language learners with different fields of study (i.e., English majors vs. Engineering majors) in invoking their metacognitive awareness and perceived use of reading strategies when reading for academic purposes in English. Using an instrument designed to measure the metacognitive reading strategies, 50 English majoring and 58 Engineering majoring university students completed a survey. Results showed

This study investigates subject/object asymmetry in the processing of relative clauses in Korean. One way to account for the difference is the linear distance account, suggesting that object relatives (Orels) have more difficulty to process (Hawkins, 1989; Tarallo & Myhill, 1983). Another account is in terms of the depth-of-embedding of the gap (Hamilton, 1995; O'Grady, 1999). It indicates that Orels are more deeply embedded than subject relatives (Srels) structurally, causing more difficulty in

Soo-Ok Kweon. 2006. Avoidance of Phrasal Verbs by Korean EFL Learners. Studies in Modern Grammar 45, 175-197. This paper investigates the avoidance of phrasal verbs by Korean learners of English. Two groups of Korean EFL learners (advanced and intermediate) participated in two tests (multiple choice test and translation test) with two types of phrasal verbs (figurative and literal). Fifteen native speakers of English served as a control group. Korean EFL learners exhibited different phrasal verb

Flipping the classroom has got attention as an innovative teaching method that emphasizes student-centered learning in various fields of subject across different levels of education. This study shows the effects of flipped learning using literature to engineering majors at a university. Students in a flipped learning (FL) class watched a video material related to the content of the novel as a flipped learning process and prepared for particular roles for various class discussion activities befor

This study investigated how Talmy’s typological framework and Slobin’s (1996) ‘thinking for speaking’ hypothesis affect Korean-English bilinguals’ verbal expression of the motion events in L1 and L2. Based on the cross-linguistic differences in conflation of motion between English and Korean, this study determines whether and how monolingual English speakers and bilinguals (Korean L1, English L2) who reside in the USA differ in the lexicalization of motion events in L1 and L2. The bilingual spea

This study investigates whether Korean leaners of L2 English are sensitive to lexicalsemantic information while processing temporarily ambiguous sentences in which the antecedents for the RCs were complex NPs linked by either the genitive preposition of or the thematic preposition with, (i.e., whether L2 learners can distinguish between these two prepositions in terms of the different thematic role assignments associated with them). A questionnaire task and a self-paced reading experiment were u

This study investigates the processing of sentences that contain locally ambiguous prepositional phrases (PP) in the VP-NP-PP construction, in which the PP can ambiguously be attached to either the VP or the NP. The subcategorization information of verbs was manipulated by using ditransitive verbs (two complements-DT), and transitive verbs (one complement-TR). While phrase-structure processing model predicts VP-attachment preference in both DT and TR constructions, lexical processing model predi

This study uses a sentence recall task to investigate syntactic priming effects in English prepositional object dative (PO) or double-object dative (DO) structures by Korean speakers of L2 English. The purposes were (1) to determine whether syntactic priming occurs during L2 production, and if it does, then to determine how it affects the subsequent utterance of target structures; and (2) to determine whether syntactic priming during production is lexically specific or independent. Thirty-two se

This paper examines the putative universality of the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) (Montalbetti, 1984) postulated for pro-drop languages by observing the interpretational status of overt and null pronouns in the context of quantified antecedents that contrasts between Korean (pro-drop language) and English (non pro-drop language). In pro-drop languages, an overt pronoun cannot have a bound variable interpretation when the antecedent is a quantified NP (e.g., everyone, someone). Twenty three Kor

The current study examines reading and writing connections based on source texts in an EFL context and reveals that students’ cumulative reading experience enhances writing proficiency. Ten university students who were taking a reading course were asked to write essays on assigned topics related to the themes of the four novels they read in the class both before (pre-reading writing) and after reading (post-reading writing) each novel. Students’ writings were graded on vocabulary, content, gramm

This study investigates whether L2 learners employ similar processing strategies as native speakers when disambiguating attachment of a relative clause (RC) in Korean as a second language (KSL). Different processing strategies were tested with temporarily ambiguous sentences containing RCs when the head NP is a complex NP (NP1 of NP2), in which either NP1 (low attachment, LA) or NP2 (high attachment, HA) can be an antecedent. The RCs were controlled for length (short vs. long) and position-sente