A study on the adequacy of the level of vocabulary and meanings in the primary English textbooks revised in 2015.

2015 개정 초등영어 교과서에 나타난 어휘 및 의미 단계의 적정성 연구

The purpose of the study is to examine the adequacy of the level of vocabulary and meanings used in the primary English textbooks. For this purpose, the vocabulary words and meanings in the English textbooks for 3 rd ~6 th grades were compared with the two criteria: one is the English Vocabulary Profile (EVP), the common standard for English, and the other is the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)-J Wordlist, which reflects the EFL context. The quantitative analysis compared the number of used vocabulary words and semantic levels by grade, and the qualitative analysis examined what vocabulary is beyond the elementary level, and what level of meaning is presented in the textbook. The results are as follows: first, the quantitative result showed that textbook vocabulary and meanings were mainly concentrated in the A1 and A2 levels throughout grades 3~6, while vocabulary and meanings from the B1 and B2 levels were generally used less, but increased in grades 5~6. Second, the qualitative result revealed a small number of vocabulary words and meanings used as not appropriate for the elementary level. Suggestions for selecting the vocabulary and meanings in the primary English textbook were made according to the level specified by the EVP and CEFR-J Wordlist.