Examining the Appropriateness of the Vocabulary Size Test in Korean EFL Context

• 발행기관: 한국외국어교육학회
• 저자명: Youngsun Moon
• 간행물 정보: 『Foreign Languages Education』Vol.24 No.3, 23~45쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.09.30

영문 초록

The current study investigated the usage of the bilingual Vocabulary Size Test (VST) within Korean EFL environment. Thirty-two university students with an intermediate to high proficiency participated in this study. The students were given a Korean bilingual version of VST and reported their official English scores. The findings of this study are as following: (1) The VST scores showed a significant relationship with students’ proficiency scores which indicates that students with a bigger size of vocabulary had a higher proficiency of English. (2) When VST scores were divided into each frequency level, no particular frequency band demonstrated a significant relationship with English proficiency. Also, the difficulty of each level did not show a consistent pattern. Based on the results of VST, the influence of Korean EFL environment such as loanwords and the test-oriented education system was discovered. This study provides implications for teaching vocabulary in EFL environment and suggests the need for developing of a vocabulary size test for Korean context.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Literature Review

III. Method

IV. Results

V. Discussion

VI. Conclusion and Implications

References

키워드

단어 크기 단어 크기 시험 단어 빈도 한국 EFL 상황 vocabulary size Vocabulary Size Test (VST) vocabulary frequency Korean EFL context