Measuring Difficulty Level of Vocabularies Using World-lists

• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Ki-suk Jun Ha-eung Kim Yong-hun Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제27호, 133~152쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.06.30

영문 초록

For a long time, TOEIC has been a global standard for measuring English language skills. The goals of this paper are (1) to identify the characteristics that TOEIC vacabularies demonstrate, (2) to measure the difficulty level of TOEIC vacabularies using two kinds of word-lists, and (3) to compare the difficulty level of TOEIC vocabularies with that of high school English textbooks. Two corpora were compiled for this study. First, we used 10 sets of the TOEIC simulation test to compile a TOEIC corpus. Second, we compiled a textbook corpus, for comparison, which contained 28 Korean high school English textbooks. The corpus-analyzing tools we used in the analysis is "NLPTools for English Education Experts." Through the analysis, we found that the TOEIC vocabularies are slightly more difficult than those of the high school English textbooks. This paper can be thought of as a pre-process for developing efficient teaching methods of teaching TOEIC vocabularies to students. In addition, this paper can be a basis for some applications of 'vocabulary control'.

키워드

TOEIC vocabularies difficulty level corpus word-lists vocabulary control