초등학교 영어교육에서 코퍼스 분석을 통한 전치사 교육

This study investigated the use of prepositions in English corpora for elementary school students. For the purpose, corpora were collected from Anthony Browne’s picture books, English children’s literature, graphic novels, fantasy movies, and English textbooks for Korean elementary school students. After analyzing ten most frequent prepositions from each corpus in terms of the frequency, five most frequently used prepositions such as to, for, in, at, about were compared among corpora to find out the features of uses of them. Also, of and by were analyzed as they were one of the most frequent prepositions in English corpora but used rarely in elementary English textbooks. The findings indicated that there were differences between the elementary English textbooks and the rest of corpora in terms of the use of prepositions. Prepositions in the textbooks were clear with only one or two core meanings. Also, prepositions were suggested artificially in the English textbooks for educational purposes, so the frequency and the use of certain prepositions appeared differently from other corpora. This study suggests that even though prepositions are function words, they can be taught effectively using lexical pattern taken out of diverse children’s media using corpus program such as AntConc, which could encourage authentic use of language in the elementary school.