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This study aims to reach educational suggestions based on a study on the usage patterns of Korean plural markers-‘tul’. In Korean language, it is not necessary to use the plural marker ‘tul’ when indicating the pluralities of countable nouns at all times. This is a difference between the use of plur...

This study aims to reach educational suggestions based on a study on the usage patterns of Korean plural markers-‘tul’. In Korean language, it is not necessary to use the plural marker ‘tul’ when indicating the pluralities of countable nouns at all times. This is a difference between the use of plural markers in English and European languages when presenting countable nouns, and the use of plural marker-‘tul’ in Korean Language. In addition, the Korean plural marker ‘tul’ is used in combination with adverbs, postpositions, and endings in addition to noun phrases.
In Korean, ‘tul’ which is classified as a plural marker in Korean is not grammatically categorized. For this reason, various errors are found for Korean learners when using the plural marker ‘tul’. Therefore, this study aims to present educational contents by organizing the usage of 'tul' patterns by native Korean speakers.
To achieve this, Korean textbooks were selected and the antecedent words used in conjunction with ‘tul’ were examined. Upon reviewing Korean textbooks, it was found that the usage patterns of plural markers 'tul' are combined with noun phrases and that the plural marker 'tul' is more commonly used in plural animate noun phrases than in plural inanimate noun phrases. This is also consistent with the fact that the plural-marking hierarchy is part of a larger animacy hierarchy.
And usage errors of Korean learners were also analyzed. As a result of the error analysis of Korean learners, it was mainly found that the common errors were plural marker ‘tul’ being used in cases where it is unnecessary, and missing error in cases where it has to be used. Through this, it was possible to reconfirm that the use of 'tul' is also related to specificity or definiteness, and the use of 'tul' in expressions for numbers is restricted.
In the last chapter, educational items of ‘tul’ were organized and presented based on previous researches. Among them, the classification of collective nouns and the meaning of collective nouns combined with ‘tul’ were presented from a new perspective different from previous studies.