한국어 어휘 교육 연구방법론 동향 분석

An analysis of trends in Korean vocabulary teaching methodology

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Korean lexical education methodology based on 544 recent research papers. The findings can be summarized as follows: First, the contents-related studies account for the overwhelming 81%(440 papers) of the entire research compared to the teaching-related studies that takes up the remaining 19%(104 papers) of the research. Second, among the contents-related studies, the substantially majority of research has been done in the field of lexical meaning relationship. Third, relatively few studies have been done in teaching-related research. Fourth, regarding research on construction of vocabulary teaching materials, the research on basic vocabulary for Korean education and vocabulary list for specific target accounts for a large proportion of research, followed by the studies on learners’ textbook and dictionaries. Fifth, in contrastive research, the most productive research areas can be listed by the order of chinese characters, idiomatic expression, proverbs, part of speech, lexical semantics, colloquial expressions, title. The vocabulary-related research has been done very actively in the Korean education. However, further research on vocabulary teaching materials is desirable, especially in the field of learner-oriented vocabulary list by genre and context.