동기화를 고려한 어휘 교육

Teaching of Vocabulary based on Motivation

From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, form and meaning of a language is motivated by language-independent factors. Drawing on this view, the purpose of this study is to make a pedagogical suggestion for teaching and learning vocabulary by focusing on meaning and function. Teaching vocabulary in class so far has mainly been focused on understanding the system or rule from the perspective of structuralism, descriptive and generative linguistics. However, this trend of teaching-learning methodology does not seem to fit the objectives of current curriculum for Korean education, which emphasize ‘creative learning’. Even though the ‘New Contents of Revised Curriculum 2007’ puts the emphasis on the understanding of the vocabulary and its creative use, the textbooks still adhesively show the viewpoint of structuralism without semantic concerns. To overcome this issue, this paper suggests a new teaching-learning model based on motivation with a consideration of meaning and function. Section 2 provided a typology of relations between source and target, which may be exploited for motivational purpose. Section 3 considered language-independent factors of motivation in more detail and categorizes them in to various types.