• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.146-153
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to research the process of Korean students' acquiring the indefinite article. To research this , we will propose two subjects of study as below. The first subject is that we will examine whether there will be any differences of the acquisition in the indefinite article between gender, male and female. The second subject is that we will examine whether there are any differences of the acquisition by the degree of proficiency at English. The subject of a sample survey was 115 female and 80 male students, total 195 students, who take English courses as a required subject at 'C' university in Gwangju. The necessary data for this study was obtained by the Questionnaires with 19 questions about the indefinite article. The data analyzing method was ANOVA(analysis of variance between groups) through the statistics program SPSS 12.0. As a consequences of this study we found that the side of the acquisition in the indefinite article between gender, male and female is closely related in the data result of the questions and the side of the acquisition by the level of proficiency at English has the meaningful data result of 14 questions at the questionaries.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2023

This study investigates why Korean English speakers misunderstand the English article system, which article Korean EFL learners use more accurately in their English writings, and implications for English writing instruction from Korean EFL learners' utterances. There have been numerous studies on the acquisition of English article system by non-native English speakers. Those studies agree that acquiring English articles is difficult for learners of English as a second language. As a result, in this study, many English learners use the definite and indefinite articles a/an. Many wrote articles from their writings, and occasionally, errors of excessive use of definite articles occurred. Through this, this paper investigates how a Korean English learner whose native language has no articles chooses the English article system in speech. It is based on the elicited production of the Korean English learner and suggests some implications for teaching English writing in the classroom. When English instructors teach Korean English learners to write English, it is more important than anything else to practice the correct usage of definite articles or indefinite articles.

• Koreanishche Zeitschrift fur Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft
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• v.5
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• pp.23-51
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• 2002

이 글은 문법화의 관점에서 관사, 비인칭구문, 재귀동사 구문을 독일어와 우리말을 중심으로 비교하였다. 우리말의 경우 관사의 범주가 아직 문법 화하지는 않았지만 수사 '하나/한'은 서양 언어에 못지 않게 다양한 문법적 기능으로 발전하였다. 독일어의 정관사나 대명사에 해당되는 요소는 우리말에서 자주 생략된다. 비인칭구문도 유럽언어의 특징인데 독일어의 경우 이는 지시대명사에서 문법 화한 것이다. 우리말의 경우 비인칭구문은 문법 화하지 않았으며 이를 위해 우리말은 주어생략 통 다른 문법적 기재들을 사용한다. 독일어에는 또 재귀구문이 잘 발달되어 있는데 우리말은 재귀구문이 그렇게 다양하게 문법 화되지 않았다 한편 우리말의 재귀사는 다양한 지시적 기능을 발전시켰다. 즉 이들은 순수하게 재귀적으로 쓰이는 경우 이외에 문장 내적 혹은 문장 외적 지시사로 사용되고 있으며 부분적으로 독일어의 man과 같은 부정대명사의 기능도 가지고 있다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.51-58
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• 2021

The purpose of the study is to examine online grammar checkers and suggest when they could be used in English writing classes. The study was conducted in the second semester of 2019 at D University in Chungcheong-do, with a total of 35 first-year students participating in the study. For data collection, pre and post grammar tests, questionnaires, and learning journals were collected and analyzed. The results of this study are as follows. First, based on the results of the English grammar test, the online grammar checker was found to be effective in English writing class. Second, students judged whether accepting or not rather than accepting feedback provided by online grammar checker. Third, among the feedback provided by the online grammar checker, the order of (in)definite article, preposition, punctuation, verb number, and noun number were found. The several implications and limitations of this study are discussed.