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논문 국내 국내전문학술지(KCI급) The Relationship between English Proficiency and Syntactic Complexity for Korean College Students
- 학술지 구분 국내전문학술지(KCI급)
- 게재년월 2021
- 저자명 Lee, Y.-J.
- 학술지명 The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
- 발행처명 The International Promotion Agency of Culture Technology
- 발행국가 국내
- 논문언어 한국어
논문 초록 (Abstract)
This study investigates the relationship between syntactic complexity and English proficiency for Korean college students, using the recently developed TAASSC(the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Syntactic Sophistication and Complexity) program. Essays on the ICNALE(International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English) corpus were employed and phrasal complexity indices and clausal complexity indices, respectively were used to predict English proficiency level for Korean students. Results of stepwise regression analysis showed that indices of phrasal complexity explained 8% of variance in English proficiency, while indices of clausal complexity accounted for approximately 11%. That is, indices of clausal complexity were slightly better predictors of English proficiency than indices of phrasal complexity, which contradicts Biber et at.(2011)’s claim that phrasal complexity is the hallmark of writing development.
