Kwon, Jeong-Hyun & Lee, Sang-Geun (2017). A study on Korean EFL learners’ perception of English emotion words in the NSM theory. Studies in Linguistics, 43(4), 209-232. DOI: 10.17002/sil..43.201704.209. PDF (open access)
The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which Korean EFL learners (n = 12) at an advanced English proficiency level could distinguish subtle differences in meaning among closely related English emotion words. For data collection, this study conducted two tasks: a sentence-completion task and an explication-recognition task. For the explication-recognition task, the study used seven existing NSM explications and instructed participants to match each of seven emotion words up with its most appropriate explication. They were also asked to underline the component(s) of the explication that affected their choices to minimize any possible casual choices. For the sentence completion task, the participants were asked to fill out each blank (20 blanks in total) with the most appropriate word of emotion and then briefly explain reasons for their choices. The results of this study support the Leibnizian position that it could be more effective for L2 learners to learn culture-specific words with context than without.
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