콘코던스를 활용한 고등학생들의 귀납적 어휘 학습

High school students' inductive vocabulary learning by using concordances: a study on the use of inductive thinking skills

This study examines the use of inductive thinking skills of high school students during Data-Driven Learning (DDL), and investigates their potential for the learning in the classroom. Despite the benefits of DDL, which facilitates the inductive language learning improving both thinking skills and language competence, only a few studies focus on learners' thinking process in the learning. Moreover, there aren't many on young learners'. This study aims to investigate high school students' use of cognitive and metacognitive skills in the inductive vocabulary learning with concordance examples. Seventy high school students undertook DDL with paper-based materials in the classroom and wrote reports about their findings based on the concordances. Their descriptions in the reports were analyzed qualitatively with reference to the stages of cognitive skill use defined in Chun's study (2011). Results showed that the high school students use the similar thinking skills and strategies in the learning with the university students' in her study. This study discovered their capability for DDL in terms of inductive thinking skills, and the strong possibility of development for the inductive language learning.