《고등학교 화법과 언어》의 ‘단어’ 관련 기술에 대한 비판적 검토 = A critical review of the ‘word’ section in the Korean high school textbook Speech and Language

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines the pedagogical content regarding ‘words’ in seven high school Korean textbooks for the subject Speech and Language, developed under the 2022 Revised National Curriculum. It provides a critical analysis of various descriptive inconsistencies found within these texts. The primary findings are summarized as follows: First, mirroring the Language and Media textbooks of the 2015 curriculum, the ‘word’ domain in Speech and Language is categorized into ‘word structure’, ‘word semantics’, and ‘characteristics of parts of speech’. While most publishers prioritize word structure and semantics, introduce the characteristics of parts of speech first. Second, seventeen core items are universally covered across all seven textbooks. These encompass fundamental morphological concepts(definitions and types of morphemes, roots and affixes, and the classification of simplex, complex, derivative, and compound), semantic relations (polysemy, homonymy, and synonymy/antonymy/hyponymy), and the properties of word classes(classification criteria, inflectional morphology, and functional shifts). Third, forty-one items are selectively included across the textbooks. Notable topics frequently addressed by a majority include ‘immediate constituent analysis’, specific compound types(coordinate, subordinate, and synthetic), sub-types of antonyms, and the distinction between numerals and numeral determiners. Fourth, the study identifies several descriptive inconsistencies regarding word-related terminology and concepts. These are classified into three types: (1) those reflecting inconsistencies present in the Standard Korean Dictionary(hereafter SKD); (2) those failing to incorporate the consistent descriptions of SKD; and (3) those described inconsistently independent of SKD. Finally, a detailed critical review reveals that inconsistencies inherited from SKD often involve ‘simple words’, ‘compounds/derivatives’, and ‘particles’. Errors arising from a failure to follow SKD include ‘immediate constituents’ and ‘Sino-Korean ordinal numerals’, while independent descriptive discrepancies are notably observed in ‘syntactic/non-syntactic compounds’ and ‘abbreviations’.