Rightward Movement: A Stylistic Feature of Chinese and Korean EEL Users

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper delves into two aspects of Rightward Movement: Heavy-NP-Shift and Extraposition from NP, and examines their absence in the discourse of Korean and Chinese EFL users. I argue that Rightward Movement is a language habit of native English speakers, to whom it is natural and unnoticeable, and is often used subconsciously, but the absence of it is a stylistic feature of EFL users. I prove it via a survey among 388 Chinese and Korean EFL users. It is shown that Chinese and Korean students and teachers are poor at the cognition of Rightward Movement, and do not have a tendency to move rightward the long and heavy elements. This is attributable to the following reasons. First, they learn English in a different manner from native speakers. Second, EFL teachers are not fully aware of teaching Rightward Movement. Third, the grammar books written for Chinese and Korean EFL learners rarely describe Rightward Movement of our concern. These elements are seen to lead to the absence of Rightward Movement in the discourse of Chinese and Korean EFL users, subsequently resulting in a stylistic feature of EFL users.

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