Intermediate Korean Students' Japanese Compositions : Causes of Erros and Students consciousness

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to suggest an effective way of teaching Japanese to Korean students in a limited time. In our study, students were asked to write a composition about a cartoon and immediately after, they were interviewed in Japanese and Korean about their errors. The results were as follows: 1 The students showed an insufficient understanding of the differences in the voice system in the two languages 2 The formal complexitity of the Korean voice system makes the acquisition of the Japanese voice expressions difficult.