중학교 영어 교과서의 어휘적 연계성에 대한 코퍼스 바탕 연구

A Corpus-based Study of Continuity in Korean Middle School English Textbooks

  This study is a corpus-based analysis of Korean middle school English textbooks and it aims to verify whether their English vocabulary is presented with sufficient educational continuity by examining the five most widely used series of middle school English textbooks (7th-9th grades). In particular, the study analyzes TTR (type-token ratio), the distribution of new words, average sentence length, and other relevant factors in the 15 middle school English textbooks in order to evaluate the continuity between different chapters of each textbook and between textbooks of different grades. The results of this study, above all, show that more continuity is needed in the introduction of new words and their distribution although there is no significant problem in other aspects of vocabulary between English textbooks of two consecutive levels.