초등학교 영어 교과서의 연계성 분석:제7차 교육과정의 의사소통 기능문을 중심으로

This study aims to help Korean EFL teachers better understand the contents of elementary textbooks. Additionally, it intends to guide materials developers to revise and improve elementary textbooks. In the 7th National Curriculum for English education in South Korea, communicative competence is promoted in primary English education. Thus, the contents found in textbooks are based on notional-functional syllabi. When contents are selected and graded for a textbook, organization is an important feature for effective learning. This study categorizes the contents of elementary school English textbooks on the basis of 'communicative functions and their exponents' in the 7th National Curriculum of foreign language. An analysis of how the exponents of a function repeat, deepen, and expand in units and grades is presented. The subjects of the study are all language materials for dialogues, games, songs, chants, and role-plays found in the 3rd to the 6th grade student's textbooks, teacher's guides, CD-ROMs, and audio tapes. The results showed that (1) communicative functions in elementary English textbooks generally show systematic organization through repetiton, expansion, and deepening of exponents of a function; (2) some functions are organixed in a non-systematic way in which exponents of each function need to be supplemented.