2009 & 2015 개정 교육과정에 근거한 초등학교 영어교과서 어휘 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this research is four-fold: firstly to examine how many recommended words of 2009 and 2015 revised curricula appeared in the elementary school English textbooks; secondly to investigate the frequency of words in elementary English textbooks; thirdly to analyze the ratio of content words and function words of the new words lists which appeared in textbooks; Lastly to analyze the differences and similarities between both the recommended vocabulary lists of 2009 and 2015 revised national curricula. For this, the English materials from elementary 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders English textbooks of Chon-jae Books were complied and analyzed. This research showed several findings. Firstly, the average rates of complying with the basic vocabulary lists of 2009 and 2015 revised national curricula recommended by the Ministry of Education accounted for 82.04% and 64.77 respectively. which indicated that the textbooks properly conform to the basic vocabulary lists recommended by the 2009 revised national curriculum, but insufficiently conform to the basic vocabulary lists recommended by the 2009 revised national curriculum.

Secondly, in terms of the frequency of words in elementary English textbooks, words appearing more than six times accounted 91.97% in 3rd grader textbook, 68.76% in 4th grader textbook, 70.32% in 5th grader textbook and 65.82% in 6th grader textbook. On the other hand, those appearing once or twice accounted for 4.38% in 3rd grader textbook, 21% in 4th grader textbook, 18.71% in 5th grader textbook and 18.36% in 6th grader textbook, which means that we must lower the rate of words low in frequency for efficient vocabulary study except for 3rd grader textbook and need a very careful attention for an efficient English textbook published by 2015 revised national curriculum. Thirdly, of the new words lists which appeared in textbooks, the ratio of content words was much higher than that of function words. The content words were frequently used in the order of nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections, which means that English textbooks were properly organized according to the level of difficulty(Rogers, 1696). Lastly, the comparison between the recommended vocabulary lists of 2009 and 2015 showed that the ratio of identical words between them was 76.63% and that of different words was 26.37%. Especially, new words which are closely related to actual life, economy, culture and spiritual world, various kinds of auxiliary verbs and prepositions are included in 2015 revised national curriculum basic words.