This thesis presents some major topics the field of vocabulary teaching in English at the middle school level in Korea.
The content of this thesis centers on two parts. In the first part. this thesis is an attempt to investigate the words in a textbo...
This thesis presents some major topics the field of vocabulary teaching in English at the middle school level in Korea.
The content of this thesis centers on two parts. In the first part. this thesis is an attempt to investigate the words in a textbook for teaching or English vocabulary.
As a result of investigation of the word numbers new word density and equidistance, it was found that all of them were disproportioned.
In this respect, English vocabulary should be taught offectively.
In the second part, the vocabulary presents three angles:
teaching of function words, content words and special words.
Vocabulary can be calssified into function words and content words by the structure of a sentence. It is obvious that difference from the native language in form meaning and culture will present difficulty in acquiring the vocabulary of a foreign language. So, this difficulty treats special words.
According to these classification of vocabulary, I suggest that English vocabulary should be taught.
Function words can be taught in combination with other word or sentence.
Concrete words in content words should be taught separate from sentences with Audio-visual aids and Direct method. Abstract word can be taught in sentences with translation.
Special word can be taught on the basis of a careful and through contrastive study of the vocabularies of the student's native language and the target language.
The difference of culture must be explained in order to understand the English vocabulary by means of Audio-visual Aids.
Finally, I hope that thesis a contribution to the improvement of vocabulary teaching practices in Korea.