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Kang, Seung-man. “Why English Relative Clauses are Difficult to Teach and Learn.” Studies
on English Language and Literature. 34.4(2008): 237-260. English relative clauses are treated
as difficult among Korean EFL learners due to crosslinguistic differences between the two
languages. Such crosslinguistic differences are the position of relative clauses, relative pronoun
fronting, the existence of a relative pronoun, the morphological form of the relative pronoun,
and so on. Evidently, they are important factors that cause the learners a variety of difficulties
in their perception of the constructions. In addition to these crosslinguistic differences, I observe that the inability to discern between a relative pronoun and an interrogative pronoun constitutes another major factor that adds to such difficulties. I argue that this results from the lack of knowledge on syntactic and semantic subcategorization and markedness. I accordingly
suggest that we should introduce such notions to our formal, explicit, and pedagogical school
grammar instruction to enrich the learners’ understanding of English relative clause constructions. (Chungbuk National University)

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• Kang, Seung-man [ Chungbuk National University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

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  1226-8682

• 수록기간

  1972~2020

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  KDC 840 DDC 820