The purpose of Korean language subject is to enhance the ability of Korean language use and in the long run to enhance the advanced thinking ability of the learners. The advanced thinking ability is to express the thoughts into the language beyond the...
The purpose of Korean language subject is to enhance the ability of Korean language use and in the long run to enhance the advanced thinking ability of the learners. The advanced thinking ability is to express the thoughts into the language beyond the basic ability of the reading and writing of the characters, and finally it means the ability of understanding the thoughts through the language. These advanced thinking abilities are developed through the language use and language ability is developed on the basis of the vocabulary. So for the development of language ability, i.e. to enhance the advanced thinking ability, the systematic guidance and learning processes are required.
In this study, the vocabulary was considered as language use including vocabulary understanding and use, and process oriented vocabulary leading methods were studied to enhance the learner's ability of diverse vocabulary concepts and use. The steps of language learning are subdivided as basic meaning understanding, concept formation and concept use, and guided the learners under the suitable step to the language understanding level by investigating the learner's language understanding level. The methods of context analogy and dictionary searching were used for the basic meaning understanding, and the grouping by the meaning association, the understanding of the meaning system and the understanding of the meaning combination relation for the concept formation. The strategy of small group conversation and paragraph writing is used for the concept use. This study was performed under the assumption that the intentive vocabulary guidance model will expand the vocabulary, understand the vocabulary as a conceptual level, extend the concept and finally the power of vocabulary usage will be developed throughout the vocabulary use training. For the experiment group and the comparison group, before and after vocabulary understanding test and vocabulary use test were performed. It was finally concluded that the vocabulary guidance model through vocabulary use training which the vocabulary was understood under the overall vocabulary concept, was more effective in vocabulary understanding and use than the traditional vocabulary guidance model which more relative importance was concentrated on the respective vocabulary meaning to eliminate the resisting vocabulary.
The hardship to generalize this study is that because this study was carried out for short time, there was a difficulty in controling the various external factors, and there was no sufficient standard questionnaire for the identification of the test result. And this study was carried out only for the freshmen of the middle school, so for the generalization of this study, enduring study is necessary to other grade of students and to confirm the effect. Finally it is expected that this study will be very effective in the vocabulary understanding and usage if the test is carried out for the sufficient time.