일본어 표현 문형(N4~N5)의 난이도

Abstract

This study investigated the difficulty of Japanese-Language Proficiency Test N4〜N5 levels in terms of degree of understanding and expression based on the learners’ levels. The key results are as follows. (1) Low-level learners judge the difficulty levels of degree of understanding and expression higher than upper-level learners. (2) From the perspective of Korean learners’ ranking of difficulty levels, it is expected to adjust some (34.6%) N5 level sentence patterns to N4 level. (3) Results of difficulty level comparison of sentence patterns based on the level of learners showed that upper and low-level learners were statistically significant at 63.9% for degree of understanding and 38.0% for degree of expression. (4) Difficulty levels in degree of understanding and expression showed that degree of expression is higher than degree of understanding in most of the learners (Upper-level 93.5%, Low-level 95.4%). (5) Difficulty in sentence patterns increases in the order of verb tagaru, ~te sashiageru, (sa)sete kudasai, sashiageru, kudasaru, verb te iru tokoro da, itadaku, ~te itadaku, verb dasu, and verb ta tokoro da. (6) Difficulty in expression of intention increases in the order of hope②, request②, benefactive, continuity, analogy and condition, appearance, conjecture and presumption, commencement, conclusion, and concession.