아동 판타지 영화의 코퍼스 기반 어휘 분석

A corpus-based lexical analysis of children’s English fantasy movies

In this study, three corpora were built based on the genres of English children’s fantasy movies, imaginative fiction, and English textbooks. Through a corpus-based lexical analysis, the three corpora were analyzed with the similarities and differences identified. The built corpora were then compared to the word list of the national curriculum. A Wordsmith 5.0 tool and kfNgram were used in this study. The results showed that 1) the ten most frequent words were generally functional words as seen in other related researches, 2) both the corpora of English children’s fantasy movies and English textbooks showed typical features of spoken corpora; the latter was revealed to be comparatively unauthentic, 3) the results from n-gram and phrase-frame data showed little agreement of language pattern between the comparative corpora, and 4) among the 900 words recommended by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, 688 words (86%) were found to occur over ten times in the corpus of children’s English fantasy movies. From the results, several suggestions can be made; 1) high frequency vocabulary found should be used as indicators to reveal the core vocabulary in English learning, 2) the studying of authentic vocabulary is necessary to the creation of a large corpus of real language materials in various genres, and finally 3) educational corpus suitable for students’ levels should be developed for students’ vocabulary-grammar learning.