통사 점화가 한국인의 영어 구동사 학습과 일반화에 미치는 영향

Abstract

This study examined the effects of syntactic priming on English phrasal-verb learning and generalization by Korean middle school English learners. Syntactic priming refers to speakers’ tendency to reuse the same syntactic structure as one that they have previously heard (Bock, 1986). In this study, the effect of syntactic priming combined with types of input distribution (skewed-first vs. balanced) was investigated with picture description and comprehension tasks. The results showed that regardless of input distribution, the syntactic priming treatment was effective in the improvement of learners’ phrasal-verb production and generalization to novel items in the pictures description tasks, but not in the comprehension tasks. These results are discussed in terms of the implicit processes of syntactic priming.