A Study on the Understanding of English Articles among University Students in an EFL

The aim of his paper is to survey and examine how much they know about articles and how they are used for 126 students taking liberal arts English at J University in small and medium-sized cities in Korea. Articles do not go into part of speech, and Korean middle and high schools are instructed to learn about indefinite and definite articles of association based on basic matters. However, students at J University were embarrassed that there were three articles instead of two. There are indefinite, definite, and zero articles in the articles There are three articles and must be understood the articles must exist in the NP-phrase. It is judged that teaching to learn and acquire articles by dividing them into NP in which indefinite articles are used, NP in which definite article are used, and NP in which zero article are used is effective in acquiring articles and will not be treated lightly. In conclusion, when you want to learn about articles, you should consider the noun phrase (NP) and remember to acquire articles together. This is because all positions where articles are used are in front of nouns. It should be understood that articles exist in all NP phrases, and one of the indefinite, definite and zero articles is used. Students at J University tended not to understand the English articles officially and clearly. When teaching about articles in middle and high schools in Korea, it is necessary to expand to the English official article rather than just the indefinite articles and the definite article.