The purpose of this study is to offer the efficient teaching materials of English articles by examining the detailed usages of the English articles and analyzing the students' errors in using the English articles.
The usages of the English articles c...
The purpose of this study is to offer the efficient teaching materials of English articles by examining the detailed usages of the English articles and analyzing the students' errors in using the English articles.
The usages of the English articles can be abstracted as follows :
First, the usages of the English definite article can be divided into eight kinds.
Second, the usages of the English indefinite article can be divided into fifteen kinds.
Third, the usages of the English zero article can be divided into twenty five kinds.
Fourth, The positions of the articles can be divided into the normal position and the abnormal position
Next, some important results of the error analysis can be abstracted as follows :
First, the total percentage of the errors in the usages of the English articles of the total 67 students is 45%.
Second, the percentage of the errors in the usages of the English zero article is 67%, the percentage of the errors in the positions of the English articles is 42%, the percentage of the errors in the usages of the English definite article is 36%, and the percentage of the errors in the usages of The English indefinite article is 28%.
Third, the sophomore students and the junior students make almost the same kinds of errors in using the English articles.
Fourth, the number of usages of the English definite article, indefinite article, and zero article, the error percentage of which is more than 70%, is five, one, and eleven, respectively.
In conclusion, for the Korean students, whose native language does not have the same article system as English, it is natural that the percentage of errors in the usages of the English articles is high, but the error percentage could be much lowered by efficiently using the usages of the English articles examined in this study and the results of the error analysis as teaching materials of the English articles.