Linguistic Properties of Monologic Spoken and Written English Used by Korean EFL Learners

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Studies of spoken and written English of native or non-native English speakers have been undertaken. They have shown distinctive linguistic properties of each mode of English across different text types, genres, and other contextual variables. In a similar vein, a comparative analysis of spoken and written English of Korean EFL learners is carried out in this paper by using controlled language data. The data in this study is monologic rhetorical description in speech and writing, and its topics are controlled by the tasks given to the participants. The findings present that although text types and topics are the same, speech and writing of Korean EFL learners include distinctive characteristics of each mode of English. More specifically, their written English is more elaborated, expressive, and grammatically more complex than their spoken English, whereas their speech does not include any type of linguistic complexity. This demonstrates that Korean EFL learners are able to differentiate speech from writing in English to a certain extent however, they still need to expand their awareness of the differences between the two modes of English.

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