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This paper examines the question of whether the order of the left peripheral elements causes difficulties in EFL adult learners’ using WH-structures. Furthermore, it suggests a method to solve the problem by applying A'-chain (which is a chain linking an s-selection to a criterial position) based on the Criterial Hypothesis (Rizzi (1997, 2004a, 2004b)). To justify the suggestion, the survey targeted 81 EFL adult learners. The results indicate that the subjects have difficulties in using grammatical structures which include wh-elements, focus- elements, and topic-elements in the leftmost edge of the sentence. It has been identified that the fundamental reason for making the difficulties is due to the different way to operate the left peripheral elements between Korean and English. To tackle this challenge, this paper suggests that EFL adult learners should recognize the order of operating the left peripheral elements (Top-WH-(Top)-Foc) and apply the order of them to build the wh-structures in terms of the concept that the standard of the operation is wh-movement which is always preceding the focus and topic movement.

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I. 설론
 II. Rizzi(2004)의 A'-Chain과 EFL 성인학습자의 WH-구조학습
  2.1 Rizzi의 A-Chain과 EFL 성인학습자의 주변 자질 운용
  2.2 의미적-선택(s-selection)과 기준적 위치
 III. EFL학습자의 WH-이동과 기준위치가설 활용 실험
  3.1 실험절차 및 내용
  3.2 실험 결과 분석
 IV. 결론
 Works Cited
 Abstract

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EFL 성인학습자 기준자질 기준위치 주변요소: wh-구 초점 화제 EFL adult learners criterial features criterial position peripheral elements: wh-phrase focus topic

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• 배상희 [ Bae Sanghee | 단국대학교 ]
• 김성헌 [ Sung-Hun Kim | 단국대학교 ] 교신저자

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