This study investigates the effects of Frayer Model-based instruction and Corpus-based instruction on the collocation achievement and learning attitudes of Korean middle school students. A total of 93 ninth-grade students participated in a five-week i...
This study investigates the effects of Frayer Model-based instruction and Corpus-based instruction on the collocation achievement and learning attitudes of Korean middle school students. A total of 93 ninth-grade students participated in a five-week instructional program conducted between May and June 2025. Pre- and post-tests, along with surveys, were administered to assess vocabulary proficiency and attitudinal changes. Participants were divided into a Frayer Model group and a Corpus-based instruction group, focusing on grammatical and lexical collocations selected from national curriculum textbooks.
The results indicate that both instructional methods significantly enhanced collocation learning, with grammatical collocations showing greater improvement than lexical collocations. However, no statistically significant difference in academic performance was observed between the two groups, suggesting that neither method was definitively superior to the other. While students' general attitudes toward vocabulary learning did not shift significantly, the findings confirm that both the explicit, deductive Frayer Model and the implicit, inductive Corpus-based approach are effective in developing collocation competence. The study concludes that for corpus-based instruction to be more effective, additional pedagogical support is needed to help learners maintain interest and acclimate to the inductive learning style.