This intends to examine the correlation of intermediate- to advanced-level students’ Korean language skills with vocabulary knowledge and with lexical collocation competence with the aim to demonstrate the significance of collocation. To this ...
This intends to examine the correlation of intermediate- to advanced-level students’ Korean language skills with vocabulary knowledge and with lexical collocation competence with the aim to demonstrate the significance of collocation. To this end, collocation and vocabulary tests were conducted for students who scored intermediate- or advanced-level grade in the Test of Proficiency in Korean(TOPIK) among those who are studying Korean language in institutions run by universities located in Seoul or attending universities or graduate schools in Korea, and then Pearson correlation, Simple regression, and Multi regression analysis were employed, along with SPSS Windows 13.01.
To do that, this analyses: first, the relationship between Korean language ability and vocabulary knowledge, and between Korean language command and collocational competence of two groups – the advanced-level group (the sixth grade) and the intermediate-level group (the fourth grade); second, the correlation of Korean language command with vocabulary knowledge and then with collocational competence third, the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and collocational competence fourth, collocation types considered difficult; and lastly, the relationship between learning period, the period of staying in Korea, final scholarly attainment, and Korean language skills.
The findings are as follows:
First, the analysis shows the significant correlation between vocabulary knowledge and Korean language skills both in the intermediate- and advanced-level group. In addition, collocational competence strongly correlates with Korean language skills among all participants. This result indicates that learners with higher collocational competence are highly likely to have better Korean language ability and that collocation and vocabulary knowledge are important factors affecting Korean language capacity.
Second, the analysis of correlation coefficient suggests that collocational competence has stronger relation with Korean language skills than vocabulary knowledge. The simple regression analysis also shows that collocational competence has a higher impact on Korean language ability than vocabulary knowledge.
Third, the intermediate- and advanced-level groups displayed slightly different patterns in the correlation between vocabulary knowledge and collocational competence. While the intermediate-level group demonstrated statistically insignificant relationship between the two factors, the advanced-level group showed stronger correlation between them. Moreover, as aforementioned, the intermediate-level group displayed high relationship between collocational competence and Korean language skills, and thus explicit collocation education looks necessary. Meanwhile, the advanced-level group shows higher relationship of collocational competence with Korean language skills than vocabulary knowledge, which suggests that studying collocation is more important than expanding vocabulary in order to enhance Korean language ability.
Fourth, subject and predicate relation; and modification collocation was pointed out as the most difficult lexical collocation, followed by object and predicate. Lastly, collocational competence positively correlates just with the period of staying in Korea, and did not show any significant relationship with Korean language ability or final scholarly attainment.
The analysis indicates that lexical collocation competence is an important factor for Korean language ability, and higher collocation competence leads to better language ability, implying that collocation plays a pivotal role in learning foreign languages. Therefore, Korean language education institutions should teach correlation fit for the level of learners. By doing so, they should be able to greatly help Korean language learners to pursue fluent and accurate communication skills.
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