서강대학교

초록/요약

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate interlanguage that exists in Korean university students' writing and find the correlation between student's level of English and errors they made. Category of verb errors which was used in this thesis falls into three groups: Morphological errors, Phonological errors, and Syntactic errors. Morphological errors include verb errors on tense, forms, subject-verb agreement, and irregular tense. Phonological errors include verb errors on word choice, idiom, and spelling. And Syntactic errors include misordering, omitting, redundancy, and double mark. This thesis was intended to give a guideline for teachers who teach English writing to Korean students by showing the result of correlation between the categories of errors students made and their level. YELC(2011) (Yonsei English Learner Corpus) corpus which was used as an material to analyze in this thesis consists of 3,286 Yonsei University students' writing. Students are divided into 9groups graded by CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Language). For the efficiency of the research, groups with + were excluded and group A1 which is the lowest level was also excluded since writings of A1 groups were too short to make the result meaningful. From the data presented, four groups and 339 writings were selected for analysis. The results from this study are as follows : All of the verb errors on writing were categorized into the verb error category which was used in this thesis and less than 10 verb errors were double included into two categories. The categories of verb error accounted for high rates as this following order : morphological error, phonological error and syntactic error. Phonological and syntactic errors showed stronger correlation between student's English level and frequency of errors categories they made compared to morphological errors. As students' level of English gets lower, the rates of syntactic errors category gets higher. In conclusion, there are correlation between student's level of English and the category of verb errors they made and teacher can make use of it when teaching English writing.