'요청'에 나타나는 우리나라 중학생들의 어휘 사용에 대한 코퍼스적 분석

A corpus analysis of the use of vocabulary in requests by Korean middle school students.

This is a descriptive study which investigated the use of vocabulary in requests by Korean middle school students. Seventy two 2nd graders in a middle school in Seoul were asked to write down their responses to five request situations in the Cartoon DCT. Using WordSmith Tools 5.0 version, their responses were analyzed in terms of the average number of vocabulary tokens(response length), the range of vocabulary, and its frequency in each request situation. The vocabulary used by middle school students was compared to that of English native speakers. The results showed that the middle school students were found to produce about 10 vocabulary tokens regardless of situations. Second, interestingly enough, middle school students' range of vocabulary was as wide as that of English native speakers. Third, there were some differences between the groups in terms of their preference for certain vocabulary items under specific situations. The results are expected to provide useful information on vocabulary teaching in speech acts and materials developments.