공무원 영어시험의 어휘 부담에 관한 연구

• 영문명: A study on the vocabulary demands of English tests for prospective civil servants
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 신유선(Yousun Shin) 김은지(Eun-Jee Kim) 오준일(Junil Oh)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제125호, 225~248쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.06.30

영문 초록

The study aimed at addressing two questions: (1) What are the vocabulary demands of English tests for prospective ninth-level, seventh-level civil servants, and police officers?; and (2) How consistent and uniformed has the vocabulary levels of such tests been over the years? Texts from three-consecutive-years-examination papers (2014, 2015, and 2016) were compiled into corpora and analyzed using VocabProfile to find out the vocabulary demands of the public servant examinations. On average, ninth-level civil servants’ English exams were found to use 2,139 tokens, and seventh-level exams used 2,114 tokens, while police officers’ exam used 1,409 tokens. In order to reach 95% text coverage, test takers were required to know 3,882, 3,479, and 2,890 word families for ninth-level civil servants’, seventh-level civil servants’, and police officers’ exams, respectively. Additionally, to reach 98% text coverage, they should obtain substantially higher knowledge of word families which were found to be the case for 7,497, 6,219, and 5,366 for ninth-level, seventh-level civil servants, and police officers, respectively. The results showed that inconsistency was found in the vocabulary levels for each test across three consecutive years. It was also suggested that there was no clear distinction found in the levels of vocabulary between ninth-level and seventh-level civil servants’ tests, which might be a factor compromising the validity of the high-stakes tests to some extent. The implications of the findings are discussed.

목차

1. 서론

2. 선행 연구

3. 연구 방법

4. 결과 및 논의

키워드

어휘수준 공무원 영어시험 출현형 유형 어휘족 civil servant English test vocabulary level VocabProfile text coverage high-stakes test