The relationship between Korean EFL learners' discourse production ability and English proficiency
- 주제(키워드) discourse analysis , written discourse , Korean EFL learners , cohesion , narrative , CSAT
- 발행기관 고려대학교 대학원
- 지도교수 강유선
- 발행년도 2012
- 학위수여년월 2012. 8
- 학위구분 석사
- 학과 일반대학원 영어교육학과
- 원문페이지 68 p
- 실제URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/korea/000000034746
- 본문언어 영어
- 제출원본 000045720554
초록/요약
In Korea, language discourse production in regular English classes has been overlooked. In consequence, EFL learners in Korea have much difficulty in producing native-like discourse even after years of receiving formal English education. This paper was designed to investigate whether or not Korean high school EFL learners’ ability to produce cohesive written narrative discourse is related to their English proficiency measured by PCSAT scores. The research was also conducted to determine predictability of cohesive discourse in explaining Korean EFL learners’ language competency. References and conjunctions were used to measure the cohesiveness of a written discourse. The test results proved that the quantity of references and subordinating conjunctions per clause has positive correlations with language competency. Among these two variables, the correct use of references had the biggest influence on predicting the PCSAT scores, while the use of coordinating conjunctions, such as ‘and,’ did not play an important role, even though it appeared a great number of times throughout the written discourse. In addition, there were significant mean differences between a group of above and below average students in producing and handling references and conjunctions in their narratives. Speculations are made to account for these findings.
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I. Introduction 1
II. Literature Review 5
1. Why Study Discourse (Sentence level vs. Discourse level) 5
2. Reference and Conjunction in Discourse 8
3. Cohesion and Writing Quality 13
4. Relationships between Writing and Language Proficiency 16
5. Written Discourse Production and English Competency of Korean EFL Learners 19
6. Research Questions 21
III. Method 21
1. Participants 21
2. Materials and Data Collection 23
3. Transcription and Coding 24
4. Reliability of the Coding 26
IV.Results 27
1. Means and Standard Deviations (Table 1) 27
2. Comparing Means (Table 2) 28
3. Comparing Means (Table 3) 29
4.Comparing Means (Table 4) 30
5. Means and Standard Deviations (Table 5) 32
6. Correlations (Table 6) 34
7. Correlations (Table 7) 36
8. Regression Analysis (Table 8) 38
9. Regression Analysis (Table 9) 40
10. Correlations (Table 10) 41
11. Regression Analysis (Table 11) 42
V. Discussion and Limitation 45
VI. Conclusion and Implications 50
Reference 52
Appendix 60
