Kim, Gui-seok and Ahn, Gil-soon. 2001. A study on the learning order of English relative clauses of Korean middle school students. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 9(3), 71-88. This paper has tied to explore the learning order of six struc...
Kim, Gui-seok and Ahn, Gil-soon. 2001. A study on the learning order of English relative clauses of Korean middle school students. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 9(3), 71-88. This paper has tied to explore the learning order of six structure types of relative clauses, classified according to the grammatical role of both the nominal that the relative clause modifies (the head) and the gap within the relative clause. The subjects are 293 students using different textbooks in four formal classroom settings in Korea. To obtain the accurate percentages and learning orders of English relative clauses, the Group Score Method (GSM) was used for data analyses. Major findings are s follows'. (1) The learning was order of relative clauses is SS, SO, OS, 00, SO_1, OO_1; (2) The orders me not similar to those shown in previous studies by the native language researchers; and (3) The frequent order in English textbooks used did not affect the learning order. (Chosun University & Chonbuk National University).