The aim of this study is to understand the Korean tense acquisition of Chinese Korean students (CKS), whose native language has little morphological similarity to Korean, with a focus on deixis and deictic projection. Although tense is one of the firs... The aim of this study is to understand the Korean tense acquisition of Chinese Korean students (CKS), whose native language has little morphological similarity to Korean, with a focus on deixis and deictic projection. Although tense is one of the first items to be taught in Korean language education, even some advanced learners have difficulties utilizing the Korean tense properly. However, the existing literature on the Korean tense acquisition focus mainly on the morphology or the basic meanings, not taking into consideration the function of tense which can refer to various kinds of time. This study hypothesizes that the acquisition of Korean tenses can be challenging due to their variability depending on the discourse context. Thus we investigate whether CKS apprehend the tense the same way Korean native speakers (KNS) do when the speaker intends that it refers to a time point different from its basic meaning depending on the discourse context. We also investigate whether the choice of tense among CKS is the same as that of KNS when the coding time(CT) and the receiving time(RT) do not coincide. This study is composed as followed: Part I clarifies the objective and necessity of the study, and introduces the existing Korean language education literature on tense acquisition which are from perspectives of error analysis and interlanguage analysis. Moreover, Part I states the key research questions and necessary hypotheses based on the literature review and personal experience from the field. Part II is about the theoretical background of this study. This part studies tense as a linguistic device conveying temporality, and also the theories on its acquisition from the perspectives of Morphosyntax and Discourse Pragmatics. First, from a morphosyntactic perspective, the structure and category of Korean tenses are investigated, and the basic meanings of tenses are studied. This part also introduces the discussion on how the combination of tenses can be affected by the internal semantic trait of the verb (Aktionsart, lexical aspect) on which the tense is put. Moreover in Part II, we study the acquisition theory based on the basic meaning of tenses, and the Aspect Hypothesis (AH) theory, which suggests that can influence the tense acquisition. Next, from a discourse-pragmatic point of view, tense is considered as a factor of time deixis. Thus, this part looks into the concepts of time deixis and deictic center, and further into the acquisition theory on discourse function of tense. Part III elaborates the research method used in the study. It explains in details the research procedures and three stages of preliminary experiments. This part also introduces the research participants of the final experiment, the finalized data mining tools from the preliminary experiments, and the data analysis methods for the research questions. Parts IV and V describe the results of data analysis. Part IV analyzes the tense apprehend of CKS based on six different types of tenses which are categorized according to their relationship with the actual time being referred to. This is to see if the effects of Aktionsart differ according to the relationship between the tense and its time referred, and find out about the clues utilized by CKS to capture the proper tense. Results showed that CKS the tenses similarly as KNS do when the tense coincides with the referred time, but when not, the of CKS differed from that of KNS. Moreover, the effects of Aktionsart on tense apprehend depended on the relationship between the tense and its time referred to, and CKS tended to rely on their vocabulary or grammatical knowledge rather than discourse contexts when identifying the proper tense. Part IV concludes that CKS well acquired tense as a grammatical item, but have not acquired the variability of tense depending on the discourse context. This implies that the acquisition of the basic meanings of tense does not necessarily involve the acquisition of pragmatic items of tense, suggesting the need for teaching the discourse pragmatic function of tense and methods of utilizing discourse contexts. Part V compares the choice of tenses and their deictic center between KNS and CKS when CT and RT discord. This part suggests that although different in magnitude, KNS and CKS both put the deictic center on the speaker when the situation is closer to the speaker, and on the listener when the situation is closer to the listener. Also in this part, we observed the time deictic center being shifted within a discourse when person deixis shifted. Part VI summarizes the results of the study. Based on its significance and limits, this study makes suggestions to the fields of Korean Education and proposes further research questions. This study questions the existing studies on Korean tense acquisition which are mainly based on the morphology of the tense. Thus the study introduces the concept of deixis and deictic projection on tense acquisition, looking into Korean tense acquisition of CKS from a new point of view. Using the concept of deictic projection allows us to explain the discordance of the tense and its referred time without modifying the basic meaning of the tense or the existing categories of tenses, which Morphosyntax could not fully capture. Furthermore, the results suggest the strong need of teaching the pragmatic items in the fields of Korean education, and imply that making a list of the teaching items of pragmatic traits will allow this study to be a valuable baseline data. ，免费韩语论文，韩语毕业论文 |
