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Kim, Kyung-Ryung. 2010. A Study of Korean Vocabulary Acquisition Procedure by Foreign Students. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal. 18(4). 219-241. This study is about foreign students' Korean vocabulary acquisition procedure. Thirty-three foreign students and ten native speaking Korean students who attend University in Korea participated in this study. All foreign students were in various majors at different universities. Both foreign and Korean students participated in reaction time, error rates and lectio quotient tests. They also answered four basic survey questions. The findings of this research are stated below. There exist quite a few differences between foreign and Korean students' reaction time and error rates results. Native speakers of Korean showed quite stable results at cognizing various vocabularies which appeared alone or inside sentences while foreign students showed stable results when vocabularies appeared only within sentences. Second, foreign students were better at cognizing nouns than verbs. Sino Korean words seemed more difficult to acquire than foreign loan words or Korean native tongue words. Acquiring colloquial language seemed to be easier than literary language. Acquiring idiomatic expressions was also one of the difficult lexis for foreign students. Error rates, reaction time and lectio quotient results did not show proportionate relationships. This study implies that foreign international students have to be trained in a more systematic manner using various methods for Korean vocabulary acquisition.

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