The English dative alternation, which involves an alternation between the double object construction (DC) and the adpositional construction (AC), has been known to be one of the most problematic areas for L2 learners. This paper investigates the factors influencing the Korean English as a foreign language learners’ choices between the two constructions. The Korean section of the TOEFL11 corpus was used and sentences with dative constructions were extracted from the corpus. Nine factors were then encoded and analyzed with a generalized linear mixed-effect model. From the analysis, the following facts were observed: (1) Korean EFL learners’ choice between the DC and the AC was influenced by five factors: animacy of theme, definiteness of theme, pronominality of recipient, length difference between theme and recipient, and individual verbs; (2) despite some similarities in choice of alternation between Korean EFL learners and ENL speakers, the two groups also exhibited differences, and (3) these differences originated from the different effects of these factors.

This study uses a sentence recall task to investigate syntactic priming effects in English prepositional object dative (PO) or double-object dative (DO) structures by Korean speakers of L2 English. The purposes were (1) to determine whether syntactic priming occurs during L2 production, and if it does, then to determine how it affects the subsequent utterance of target structures; and (2) to determine whether syntactic priming during production is lexically specific or independent. Thirty-two sets of target-prime sentences were developed using 12 dative alternating verbs, creating DO-DO, DO-PO, PO-DO, PO-PO target-prime pairs. Syntactic priming effects occurred with the PO priming irrespective of targets (whether DO or PO) but only when the verb used in the prime was the same as the verb used in the target. The results suggest that lexical dependency of syntactic knowledge during L2 production does not accord with the lemma stratum model. A pedagogical implication of successful learning of lexical entries is discussed.

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.