Min-Chang Sung
List of John Benjamins publications in which Min-Chang Sung is involved.
2025 Production and understanding of change‑of‑state tokens in English talk‑in‑interaction among L1 and L2 speakers Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates the production and understanding of change-of-state tokens like oh and ah in English conversations among one L1 speaker and three L2 speakers. Using conversation analysis, it examines how these speakers do interactional work to achieve shared understanding through these… read more
2023 L2 English learners’ verb lexicalization of motion events: Effects of proficiency and salience of manner Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching, Della Putta, Paolo and Ferran Suñer (eds.), pp. 266–292 | Article
This study examines the effects of L2 proficiency and manner salience on English learners’ verb lexicalization of spontaneous motion events. Three proficiency groups of L1 Korean learners of L2 English were asked to describe spontaneous motion situations, and their use of verbs was compared to… read more
2023 Constructional complexity as a predictor of Korean EFL learners’ writing proficiency Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 36:2, pp. 436–466 | Article
Based on usage-based constructionist approaches to language development, this study investigates the validity of constructional complexity as a predictor of writing proficiency of Korean EFL learners. We analyzed argumentative essays produced by Korean EFL learners and compared a prediction… read more
2023 Top-down and bottom-up approaches to teaching English verb-particle constructions: Construction-based and metaphor-based instruction Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:2, pp. 486–514 | Article
The present study examines two cognitive linguistics approaches to foreign language teaching. One draws on the conventionality of language use that a variety of expressions can be understood as instances of more general patterns, e.g., kick them out and eat it up as verb-object-particle, whereas… read more
2017 A corpus-based study of contextual factors influencing Korean EFL learners’ dative alternation: Lexical verbs, syntactic weights, and information structures Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:1, pp. 19–39 | Article
English datives show two syntactic patterns, the double object dative (DOD) and the prepositional dative (PD). The alternation between DOD and PD is influenced by three contextual factors: lexical verbs, syntactic weights, and information structures. However, it has been observed that English… read more