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Noun Phrases in Korean Students’ Written English

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Building upon the attention paid to the significant role of the noun phrase (NP) as an indicator of advanced academic literacy and a useful assessment tool for written language development, this study examines the distribution and structure of NPs in essays written by Korean university freshmen. Utilizing a developmental stage index of the NP adapted from Biber, Gray, and Poonpon (2011), we analyzed a small learner corpus, producing the following results: 1) the quantity of NPs produced by the learners was not an indicator of either L2 proficiency or text type, 2) the complexity of modification structure and the length of NPs varied across L2 proficiency levels, 3) the majority of the modifiers used by the learners belonged to the first and second stage of the developmental stage index, with very few instances of modifiers from stages 3 and 4, and 4) the higher level learners’ use of modifiers exhibited their developing awareness of generic features of academic English.

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Building upon the attention paid to the significant role of the noun phrase (NP) as an indicator of advanced academic literacy and a useful assessment tool for written language development, this study examines the distribution and structure of NPs in essays written by Korean university freshmen. Utilizing a developmental stage index of the NP adapted from Biber, Gray, and Poonpon (2011), we analyzed a small learner corpus, producing the following results: 1) the quantity of NPs produced by the learners was not an indicator of either L2 proficiency or text type, 2) the complexity of modification structure and the length of NPs varied across L2 proficiency levels, 3) the majority of the modifiers used by the learners belonged to the first and second stage of the developmental stage index, with very few instances of modifiers from stages 3 and 4, and 4) the higher level learners’ use of modifiers exhibited their developing awareness of generic features of academic English.

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