초등학생용 영어 코퍼스 분석을 통한 형용사 사용의 비교 연구

A study on uses of adjectives in English corpora for elementary school students

This paper attempts to analyze uses of adjectives in English corpora for elementary school students. For the purpose, corpora were collected from Anthony Browne's picture books, graphic novels, fantasy movies, English children's literature, and English textbooks for Korean elementary school students. After analyzing thirty most frequent adjectives from each corpus in terms of the frequency, six most frequently used adjectives such as good, right, nice, big, little, and long were compared among corpora to find out the features of their use. The findings indicated that there were differences between the textbooks and the rest of corpora with references to the use of default terms of each adjective. This study suggests that adjectives need more attention in teaching English as a second or foreign language.