초록
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The language informant for this study is a Korean child learner of English named Grace. She began to receive formal English instruction in the U.S.A. at the age of 8;6. The researcher’s interest was: How soon and how accurately can she speak English as her L2? Primarily, her accuracy in the use of the English copula be was studied. Three semi-structured tasks were administered: monologue Role-play, Description of two Picture Books, and Reading & Conversation. Grace’s spontaneous utterances were collected from March to October, 2006 using a digital voice recorder (Model: SVR-S820). 15 sessions of Grace’s oral production were analyzed. The child's average accuracy increased from 43% in March/April performances to 61% in September/October performances. As time went on, the correct use of copula be in Task 1 showed a pretty wide range of distribution. According to Grace's data, English copula emerged from the very beginning of her learning. (Jeonju National University of Education)
목차
I. Introduction
II. Theoretical Background
III. Research Design
3.1 Subject
3.2 Instruments
3.3 Data Collection Procedures
3.4 Data Analysis Procedures
IV. Results and Discussion
4.1 The child learner’s accuracy in the use of copula be
4.2 Tasks to be performed and the learner's oral production
4.3 Distribution of error-free copula
4.4 Structural characteristics of Grace's utterances
V. Conclusion
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