초등 영어 어휘의 부수적 습득을 위한 지도 방법

Techniques for incidental English vocabulary learning in Korean elementary school

  For the last ten years, English vocabulary learning in Korean elementary school has relied on explicit methods of teaching. However, it is widely known that the size of vocabulary explicit teaching can handle is extremely small and that most of the vocabulary native speakers of English come to possess are acquired by incidental learning through, mainly, reading and listening. It would thus be timely and useful to implement various techniques of stimulating incidental vocabulary learning in English classroom with young learners in Korea. This study aims to review and propose techniques that can be employed to encourage young learners to acquire English vocabulary incidentally, beginning with discussing some issues closely related to incidental vocabulary acquisition. The techniques are (a) extensive reading through borrowing and lending books between peers, (b) reading books with glossary, (c) reading with dictionary, (e) teachers’ use of content-based English, and (f) others.