Analysis of Errors on 'Substantives + Predicate' Type Collocation by Chinese Learners of Korean Language

The Journal of Studies in Language 34.4, 607-628. Systematic and in-depth analyses of Chinese Korean language learners' lexical errors in general and of collocation errors, in particular, are relatively rare. This study presents empirical data verifying the theoretic assertions that Chinese learners of Korean language produce 'unnatural' word combinations. In this paper, the authors used a more comprehensive error taxonomy based on previous studies to analyze Chinese learners’ use of Korean collocations. The analysis revealed that the identified sources of errors were mainly from L2’s inherent difficulty rather than first language (L1) transfer. The findings from the Chinese learners’ errors in the use of Korean collocations have implications for L2 vocabulary teaching and learning, which should be of interest to the wider Korean as a Second Language (KSL)/Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) contexts. (Chung-Ang University)