한국어 학습자를 위한 유의어 교육 연구 - ‘아깝다’, ‘아쉽다’, ‘안타깝다’를 중심으로 -

초록

As recognizing that Korean language learners often have difficulties in using the three words, '아깝다', '아쉽다', and '안타깝다' that have a synonymous relationship, this study aims to present methods of teaching and learning to Korean language learners so that they can choose the right vocabulary according to each situation they face by comparing, analyzing the three words, ‘아깝다’, ‘아쉽다’, and ‘안타깝다’ and by clarifying their meanings. To this end, we first figured out the exact lexical meanings of the three words, and analyzed the appearance patterns of ‘아깝다’, ‘아쉽다’, and ‘안타깝다’ in Korean textbooks. Next, through the data analysis on the corpus and the survey conducted for intermediate and advanced Korean language learners, we closely examined the usage and error patterns of ‘아깝다’, ‘아쉽다’, and ‘안타깝다’. We arrived at the conclusion that Korean language learners tend to use ‘아깝다’ with ‘아쉽다’ and ‘안타깝다’ after closely analyzing the results from the corpus and the survey and this appears to be due to the inability to accurately understand the subtle difference in meaning of the three words in a synonymous relationship. We should, therefore, by giving them a situation in which each word is used, guide Korean language learners to refer to each situation and finally discriminate the exact meaning of them. In addition, it is necessary to teach them to correctly discriminate the meaning of three words by letting them to make the most use of similar example sentences which are full of lots of errors many Korean language learners have struggled with.

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