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The purpose of this paper was to examine how Korean learners of English express temporal information and use the tense-aspect to report chains of events in their narrative discourse. Ten adults Korean learners of English participated (two intermediate-level and eight advanced-level learners). The participants were asked to produce a Korean-telling-story task first and then a English-telling-story task. Twenty oral narratives were collected and grounding analysis was performed on all narrative texts. The findings of the study revealed that Korean learners tended to use the past tense to express completed actions in the foreground and the non-past to comment on actions or to evaluate the events in the background. This supports that grounding of narrative discourse may influence the distribution of tense-aspect morphology. Further studies should observe the function of the background and its influence on tense-aspect in narratives with a large-scale data.

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I. INTRODUCTION
 II. LITERATURE REVIEW
  1. Grounding in Narrative Discourse
  2. Verbal Morphology in Narrative Discourse
 III. METHODS
  1. Participants
  2. Data Collection Procedures
 IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
  1. Distribution of Tense Use
  2. Foreground and Background in Narratives
 V. CONCLUSION
 Works Cited
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• Shim, Eunsook [ 심은숙 | Sangji University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810