중학교 1·2학년 2015 개정 영어교과서 읽기 자료의 가독성 분석과 아동문학 선정 연구

A study about the analysis of readability of English textbooks with 2015 Revised National Curriculum and the selection of children’s English literature.

The purpose of this study is to analyze and compare the reading texts in the middle school English Textbooks based on 2015 Revised National Curriculum for the 1st and 2nd year students. The Coh-Metrix indices used in the present study are descriptive, lexical features, syntactic complexity, discourse cohesion, and readability. This study compared the readability of the eight English textbooks in each grade, and the sixteen English textbooks were analyzed. This study examined the continuity of the English textbooks of the middle school 1st and 2nd grade by analyzing the readability. The results show that some differences exist in the readability indices among English textbooks within each grade level, but statistically significant differences were found only in descriptive and lexical indices. In addition, the findings show that the continuity of middle school English textbooks is well organized based on Coh-Metrix indices except for the cohesion measures. With these results about leveled readability between 1st and 2nd grade of middle school English textbooks, the proper selections of children’s English literature for each grade were provided.