Evaluating a Korean grammatical ability test using the data elicited from native Chinese and Japanese speakers learning Korean

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  • 中国語または日本語を母語とする韓国語学習者のデータによる韓国語文法能力テストの評価
  • チュウゴクゴ マタハ ニホンゴ オ ボゴ ト スル カンコクゴ ガクシュウシャ ノ データ ニ ヨル カンコクゴ ブンポウ ノウリョク テスト ノ ヒョウカ

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To better understand the acquisition of Korean as a foreign language, language tests must be able to accurately and reliably measure a learner’s lexical and grammatical ability in Korean. While a dependable lexical ability test has already been developed by Saito and Tamaoka (2014), current grammatical ability tests are lacking in reliability. As such, the current study aims to create an improved Korean grammatical ability test for L2 learners. The test was constructed using 36 question items divided into three sub-categories of morphological inflections, local dependency and complex structure, of which framework was developed by Miyaoka, Tamaoka and Sakai (2014). The grammatical test, along with the lexical test (48 question items), was administered to 84 Chinese and 61 Japanese learners of Korean. The Cormack’s reliability coefficients were 0.872 for the grammatical ability test and 0.881 for the lexical ability test, both showing very high reliability and no language learner group differences. In conclusion, the current grammatical ability test (along with the previous lexical ability test) is effective at providing a reliable and accurate representation of a Korean language learner’s grammatical ability.

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  • ことばの科学

    ことばの科学 29 25-42, 2015-12-15

    名古屋大学言語文化研究会

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