The purpose of this study was to examine effects of second language (L2) immersion experiences in a Korean-speaking environment for American English learners of Korean To accomplish this research purpose, the following hypothesis is constructed a native English group of learning Korean who had immersed for a longer period as adults would have suprasegmental features, mai..
The purpose of this study was three-fold 1) to compare tough with essential constructions, focusing on grammaticality of constructing sentences, 2) to analyze their constructions, and 3) to show the syntactic differences in their complement structures based on Chomskys (2000, 2001a, 2004) Phase theory and Hickss (2003) approach First of all, in regard to the first pu..
Previous studies of prosodic rhythm calibration have been focused on comparisons between two regional or social varieties of a language, and little is known about the effect of L1 on the rhythm of L2 speech This paper presents comparative experimental results for quantification of rhythmic patterns of L2 learners of English from three different L1 backgrounds Korean, Vietn..
This study was intended to examine the current English program practiced at a university The ultimate purpose of this action research was to improve the current English program on the basis of the needs analysis among the participants (n = 105) The participants were asked to answer a survey questionnaire with 24 items questioning their motivations to learn English, interest..
The objective of this study was to investigate Korean ethnic church members attitudes toward the English worship service in Montreal, Canada The participants (n=13 in total) were 11 Korean immigrant youth members aged 15 to 22, one adult member who would lead the service, and the senior pastor of the church Even though participant observation was used for data-collection..
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects that L1 transfer has on Korean learners use of the subordinate conjunction because For this purpose, 166 because-clauses in 156 college students English writings were analysed in terms of the ordering of because-clauses and main clauses The results showed that 77 because-clauses (464%) followed main clauses while fou..