중등교육과정 중국어 기본어휘의 텍스트 점유율에 관한 연구

Abstract

The basic Chinese vocabulary of secondary curriculum in Korea is 880 items and is smaller than general vocabulary list. This is the result of a number of researchers'' efforts to achieve two goals which are ‘beginner-level learning vocabulary coverage’ and ‘curriculum content adequacy’, and this is rather contradictory. However, it is somewhat questionable whether 880 items will be enough for beginner level learning vocabulary. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the basic vocabulary of the secondary curriculum is appropriate to the elementary level learning vocabulary. Ten graded readers were selected and the lexical coverage in the basic vocabulary of secondary curriculum from each books were examined. For comparison, 1,342 items with high frequency among the first grade vocabulary from the ≪等級劃分≫ were used. Although the high difficulty of the text, it did not reach 95%, which is a reasonable level of understanding, but it was found that it was quite high despite of the small vocabulary amount. However, there are many words in the secondary curriculum that are considered to be included even if they are not listed. The difference in the coverage of these words depending on whether they are included is considerably large at around 7%.