The Use of Non-restrictive Relative Clauses by Korean EFL Learners
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English allows a variety of modes of modification by simple words, phrases, or clauses by placing modifying elements before or after the noun. On the contrary, Korean allows such modifying elements to appear only before the noun. If the modifying elements appear before the noun, this mode is called ‘attributive’ modification. On the contrary, if they appear after the noun, it is called ‘descriptive’ modification. As only attributive modification is allowed in Korean, it is highly expected that Korean EFL learners will have a hard time dealing with relative clauses, restrictive or non-restrictive, which modify their head noun in a descriptive way. Centering around non-restrictive relative clauses, this paper examines some grammatical properties of modification in English and delves into Korean EFL learners’ behavioral aspects of using them in their writing. For discussion, I conducted a survey among 31 Korean EFL learners and 10 native speakers of English. The findings of the survey reveal that Korean EFL learners employ a variety of strategies for connecting the matrix clause with the subsequent clause by means of relativization, restrictive or non-restrictive, coordination, subordination, and so on. I argue that they all result from a cross-linguistic difference between the two languages in terms of the mode of modification.
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English allows a variety of modes of modification by simple words, phrases, or clauses by placing modifying elements before or after the noun. On the contrary, Korean allows such modifying elements to appear only before the noun. If the modifying elements appear before the noun, this mode is called ‘attributive’ modification. On the contrary, if they appear after the noun, it is called ‘descriptive’ modification. As only attributive modification is allowed in Korean, it is highly expected that Korean EFL learners will have a hard time dealing with relative clauses, restrictive or non-restrictive, which modify their head noun in a descriptive way. Centering around non-restrictive relative clauses, this paper examines some grammatical properties of modification in English and delves into Korean EFL learners’ behavioral aspects of using them in their writing. For discussion, I conducted a survey among 31 Korean EFL learners and 10 native speakers of English. The findings of the survey reveal that Korean EFL learners employ a variety of strategies for connecting the matrix clause with the subsequent clause by means of relativization, restrictive or non-restrictive, coordination, subordination, and so on. I argue that they all result from a cross-linguistic difference between the two languages in terms of the mode of modification.
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