The vocabulary level is the basis for Korean Speaker to use Korean language exactly and effectively. It is very essential for speaker not only to have morphologic and semantic knowledge but also be able to analyze semantic relation with other words in...
The vocabulary level is the basis for Korean Speaker to use Korean language exactly and effectively. It is very essential for speaker not only to have morphologic and semantic knowledge but also be able to analyze semantic relation with other words in the sentence.
Besides, to participate actively and creatively the environment of Korean Language use, Korean language speaker should know the colloquial knowledge about the vocabulary. Such knowledge about vocabulary and rich vocabularies are directly related with Language using ability that closely relates with communication. However, recently, middle school students often transform Korean language indiscriminately by broken Korean Language in the Internet. Ignoring the Grammar in Korean Language, they use broken Korean language such as so called "External language" and slang. The biggest problem is that they are using this broken language without the critical mind though Middle School students learn vocabulary faster than any other generation, which results in using broken language after their grown up.
The broken and misused Korean language keeps people from communicating and results in the lack of vocabulary, which prohibits people from expressing themselves in right Korean language. Moreover, more students have difficulty in understanding what they learned in the class, because they can''t understand the meaning of words that teachers use in the real class.
Accordingly, this research proposes "Education for Reading" as the solution for improving vocabulary of middle school students. Also the effect of "Education for Reading" on vocabulary improvement was tested and that the results were analyzed
Target groups are third school year students from two middle schools located in Buchon city of Gyeonggi Do. While tested group is S school that "Education for Reading" is steadily carried out, the controlled group B school is in similar condition on educational environment, academic achievement, and background knowledge however B school didn''t carry out "Education for Reading."
For all students of class to read same book, for test group, 40 books per class were offered every other week. Then students were guided to use morning self lead study class and creative activity class for the time of reading. Teacher have students read books in the free mood and consulted the meaning of new words facing them by dictionary, web-surfing, questioning to teacher, contextual information and so on. Also teacher instructed students to internalize the newly known words or vocabularies with the written description of their reading and discussion by utilizing newly known vocabularies.
Above tests could show how much effective "Education for Reading" is on vocabularies improvement of middle school students.
Prior to the actual test, the preliminary test showed the consubstantiality between tested group and controlled group. Also after the actual test, by the post test, the change of average between two groups was analyzed.
For the evaluation, written examination and performance evaluation were taken.
With written examination, qualitative factors of vocabularies such as morphologic, semantic, and colloquial knowledge were evaluated. While by performance evaluation, for the qualitative factors of vocabularies such as morphologic, semantic, and colloquial knowledge were evaluated and for quantitative factors, quantity of vocabularies was measured.
In result, comparing with controlled group, test group showed the improvement of grade on vocabularies examination. However, by the written test, the meaningful result was derived at morphological parts, semantic parts, especially the relation of meaning between the dictionary and the real use, and colloquial parts. On the contrary, the written test is not effective for the idiomatic expression and the contextual meaning. The reason why the written test is not effective for the idiomatic expression and the contextual meaning seems that controlled group could find the answer by utilizing contextual information from the written test, which was the property of the written test. Finally, the percentage of correct answer of controlled group seemed to be also high.
For performance test, tested group, comparing with controlled group have got better grades on quantity of vocabulary, morphological parts, semantic parts, and colloquial parts.
To sum these results up, among various teaching method for vocabulary improvement of middle school students, Education for Reading can raise their vocabulary level. Especially, students can internalize the newly known words by reading. Also after reading, some practice like discussion and the written description of their reading can be aimed at natural enhancement of student''s vocabularies.