2007 개정 교육과정에 의거한 고등학교 1학년 영어 교과서의 읽기 활동 분석

Analysis of reading activities in the 10th grade English textbooks under the revised 2007 National Curriculum

The purpose of the present study was to analyze reading activities in the 10th grade English textbooks that are used in high schools in Korea under the National Curriculum revised in 2007. Reading activities of pre-, during-, and after-reading stages in the 10th grade English textbooks were analyzed and compared to those in the textbooks of the 7th National Curriculum. Findings of the study were: 1) the types of reading activities in the order of the most to the least presented in the new textbooks were “activating background knowledge”, “relating to personal experience”, “vocabulary”, and “previewing” activities in the pre-reading stage, “monitoring comprehension”, “relating to personal experience”, “understanding the structure of a passage”, and “predicting the content of the next part” for during-reading activities, and “understanding the content”, “using integrated skills”, and “figuring out logical structures and types of texts” for after-reading activities; 2) of the activity types, activities for “activating background knowledge” showed significant improvement from those in the textbooks of the 7th National Curriculum in terms of the diversity of the activities; and 3) almost all the textbooks contained reading activities that meet the achievement criteria set by the revised 7th National Curriculum. Implications are suggested for reading teachers about using the textbooks.