콘텐츠 본문
논문 국내 국내전문학술지(KCI급) A comparison of noun phrase complexity features between native speakers of English and Korean college students using TAASSC program
- 학술지 구분 국내전문학술지(KCI급)
- 게재년월 2022-11
- 저자명 Lee, Y.-J.
- 학술지명 Secondary English Education
- 발행국가 국내
- 논문언어 한국어
논문 초록 (Abstract)
This study investigates how syntactic features can be used to distinguish essays written by Korean college students from NS college students. Essays from the ICNALE(International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English) corpus were analyzed using TAASSC(the Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Syntactic Sophistication and Complexity) program. Two statistical analyses were performed. First, a multivariate analysis of variance(MANOVA) was employed to examine whether there are statistically significant differences in noun phrase complexity features between NS and Korean students. Second, a stepwise discriminant function analysis was performed to classify into two groups(i.e., NS and Korean students) in terms of noun phrase complexity features. Results showed that Korean and NS students significantly differed in terms of various noun phrase complexity indices. The best four predictors for distinguishing Korean students’essays from NS students’ essays were dependents per object of the preposition, relative clause modifier per nominal, prepositions per object of the preposition, and dependents per nominal. It was shown that NS students produced more syntactically complex essays than Korean students by employing phrasal embedding. Implications of this study for English writing instruction are discussed.
