This study investigates how Korean students perceive English on-glides in the sequences of [kwi]-[ki], [kwe]-[ke], [kwo]-[ko], [yi]-[i], [wu]-[u], and [w]-[] by conducting a discrimination task 32 Korean students (16 students with a high level of English proficiency and 16 students with a low level of English proficiency) and 3 native speakers of English, as a contro..
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the Hunminglish Pronunciation Instruction (HPI) based on a contrastive analysis for Korean adult learners who lack confidence and competence in English pronunciation Hunminglish is a unique contrastive linguistic combination of Hunminjeongeum, listed in UNESCO`s Memory of the World, and English 20 volu..
The extension of the progressive aspect has been widely discussed as a feature of non-native varieties of English as representing either structural variation or semantic extension to new contexts Responding to calls to approach varieties of English as a native (ENL), second (ESL) and foreign (EFL) language in an integrated way, this paper reports on a case study of the p..
English articles have been widely researched in L2 acquisition studies, and most studies focused on article uses in expressing definiteness and specificity (Ionin et al 2004, Snape & Yusa 2013, among many others) In contrast, generic uses of English articles have received relatively less attention The current paper investigates L2 acquisition of English generic articles..