아동 문학 코퍼스 기반 2015 영어과 교육과정 및 초등 영어교과서 어휘 분석

Children’s literature corpus-based analysis of vocabulary in the 2015 English curriculum and elementary school English textbooks

This study aimed to provide objective indicators for learners and teachers when they select and apply a series of children’s literature suitable for each school year. As an additional study aim, a corpus of children’s literature series using corpus linguistics methodology has been constructed, and the 2015 revised English curriculum, along with the full textbook of each publisher, has been also corpusized. The authors selected children’s literature based on the ERIK (English Reading Index in Korea), which comprises the reading phases applicable to Korean learners, including a total of 16 series from the children’s literature in ERIK phases 1-4. The number of books in each series was set to 25, and the criterion for the curriculum vocabulary was the basic vocabulary list of the 2015 revised English curriculum. For the criteria for textbook vocabulary, the present study downloaded textbook data from each publisher’s website and constructed a textbook corpus. Further, the authors compared the children’s literature corpus with the basic vocabulary list of the 2015 revised English curriculum and identified the vocabulary concordance rate between the two. Additionally, vocabularies that are frequently used in the children’s literature series but are not included in the basic vocabulary list were examined. Last, the authors selected a series of children’s literature that was the most suitable for each textbook by examining the vocabulary concordance rate between the series and the textbooks of each school year.