2009 개정 교육과정에 따른 중학교 영어 교과서 대화문의 의사소통 기능 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the frequencies of communicative functions in middle school English textbooks. For this study, three kinds of newly-published textbooks from 1st grade to 3rd grade were randomly selected. The study analyzed 11 broad and 122 specific communicative functions and expressions based on criteria prescribed in the 2009 revised national curriculum. The questions stated in this study are as follows: First, what are the target communicative functions introduced in each unit of the middle school English textbooks? Second, what kinds of communicative functions, excluding target communicative functions, are presented in the dialogues of the listening scripts of the textbooks? Third, are the target communicative functions sufficiently recycled in the dialogues in the first grade of the English textbook? The results of this study show that the communicative functions of ‘giving and requesting information’, ‘doing social activities’ and ‘expressing emotions’ are presented most frequently as the target communicative functions in each unit of the English textbooks. In contrast, the communicative functions of 'expressing moral attitudes' and 'expressing factual attitudes' are rarely presented. Regarding the second research question, the frequencies of the communicative functions presented in the dialogues in the textbooks are similar to those of target communicative functions. In addition, the target communicative functions introduced in each unit are not sufficiently recycled in the dialogues except for the functions of 'doing social activities' and 'giving and requesting information'. This study shows that the communicative functions are not presented in a balanced way as following the revised curriculum and not recycled sufficiently enough to acquire completely the communicative functions. Therefore, the communicative functions need to be introduced in a more balanced way and with more repetition so that the students have more opportunities to improve their communicative competence.