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The Acquisition of English Motion Verbs with Locational/Directional PP by Korean EFL Learners

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This paper examines whether Korean-speaking learners of English are able to discover the ambiguity of English prepositions like under and behind, occurring with manner of motion verbs, such as John swam under the bridge, where under the bridge can be either the goal of John’s swimming or the location of John’s swimming. It is well known that in the case of expressing the goal of motion, English allows both manner of motion verbs and directed motion verbs to occur with goal preposition phrases (PPs), whereas Korean disallows the conflation of manner with motion to occur with goal PPs. Instead, Korean must use directed motion verbs with goal PPs and express manner independently. It implies that the expression of the goal of motion events in Korean is more complicated than that of the location of motion events. Twenty advanced Korean EFL learners, twenty low-intermediate Korean EFL learners, and ten native speakers of English were tested using a picture-matching task. Results show that, unlike English speakers, Korean learners consistently failed to recognize the directional reading of English manner of motion verbs with locational/directional PPs. Therefore, I suggest that explicit negative feedback is required for L2 learners to overcome the L1 effect and succeed in learning their L2 grammar.

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