Son Hui-Youn 2014. The Meaning of Conversation as a Socio-cognitive Process of the Second Language Acquisition: Analyzing conversation type of microgenesis in the Sociocultural theory's point of view. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 22(1). This study aims to identify conversational phenomenon that shows socio-cognitive process of the second language acquisition. To this end, this study investigated major concepts in the ‘sociocultural theory’s point of view and descriptive methodology based on the ‘conversational analysis'. The analysis data of this study was transcribed by observing the conversations generated in the situation where four Korean language learners from Mongol performing story-making and, interview. Based on this analysis data, this study caught conversational scenes that show the second language development as ‘microgenesis’ phenomena and tried to find the theories of acquisition and conversation organization involved in these conversational scenes. As results of analysis, firstly, this study could see clinical conversation types of microgenetic development generated to complete story-making; secondly, this study could observe cooperative conversational phenomena of microgenetic development accompanied by conversational phenomena such as repair or metaenonciation during the course of interview.

본 연구는 한국인 영어학습자의 영어 여격 구문 사용 양상을 파악하고 여격 구문 사용에 있어서 나타나는 오류를 분석하였다. 한국인 영어학습자들이 영어의 여격 구문을 습득하는 데 있어서 모 국어인 한국어의 전이현상이 나타난다는 선행연구들에 근간하여: 1) 한국인 영어학습자가 영어의 여격 구문을 사용함에 있어서 모국어인 한국어의 여격 구문의 특성과 관련된 사용 양상 및 오류를 보이는지, 또한 2) 한국인 영어학습자의 여격 구문 사용양상이 영어 원어민 화자의 여격 구문 사용과 어떻게 다른 양상 및 오류를 보이는지에 관하여 조사였다. 한국인 대학생 60명과 영어 원어민화자 10명이 그림기반 문장완성검사 실험에 참여하였으며, 그 결과 한국인 학습자들의 영어 여격 구문 사용양상에서 원어민화자들에게서 나타나는 것과 다른 유형의 선호도와 오류들이 발견되었다. 또한 그 차이가 영어 여격 구문의 특징과 다른 모국어인 한국어 여격 구문의 특징과 관련이 있으므로, 모국어 전이현상을 기반으로 그 결과를 논의하였다.

I investigate the parsing strategies of relative clause (RC) attachment preferences by Korean speakers and English learners of Korean as a second language. RC can modify either NP1 or NP2 as its host when the antecedent consists of a complex NP as in `kyosil-ey iss-nun haksayng-uy chayk`, where either haksayng or chayk can be interpreted as a host. Two test methodology (a picture identification test and a written questionnaire test) were used to examine the parsing preferences by the two language groups. The results show that Korean speakers and English speakers converged or diverged depending on the test methodology. While the two language groups behaved similarly in the former test, they did not in the latter test. A strict working memory capacity and lack of knowledge about the verb semantics by L2 learners were assumed as possible reasons for the different parsing preferences. Based on the findings, I propose that native speakers and L2 learners do not have the same source of computational system and that different types of tests are necessary to get a clearer picture of L2 processing system in psycholinguistic research.