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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2020.20.07.274

Comparative Analysis of 4-gram Word Clusters in South vs. North Korean High School English Textbooks  

Kim, Jeong-ryeol (한국교원대학교 초등교육과)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.20, no.7, 2020 , pp. 274-281 More about this Journal
Abstract
N-gram analysis casts a new look at the n-word cluster in use different from the previously known idioms. It analyzes a corpus of English textbooks for frequently occurring n consecutive words mechanically using a concordance software, which is different from the previously known idioms. The current paper aims at extracting and comparing 4-gram words clusters between South Korean high school English textbooks and its North Korean counterpart. The classification criteria includes number of tokens and types between the two across oral and written languages in the textbooks. The criteria also use the grammatical categories and functional categories to classify and compare the 4-gram words clusters. The grammatical categories include noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, partial clauses and others. The functional categories include deictic function, text organizers, stance and others. The findings are: South Korean high school English textbook contains more tokens and types in both oral and written languages. Verb phrase and partial clause 4-grams are grammatically most frequently encountered categories across both South and North Korean high school English textbooks. Stance is most dominant functional category in both South and North Korean English textbooks.
Keywords
High School English; North Korean English Textbook; N-gram Analysis; Comparison of South and North Korean English Education; 4-gram; Comparison of English Textbook;
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