영·유아의 기초 어휘 선정 연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The most important thing in our lives is building and maintaining interpersonal relationships. The most essential tool in those processes is language, and it goes though natural development stages from the moment a person is born. The most fundamental factor in language development is vocabulary, because it is a large part of a language. This study is intended to offer basic data for effectively teaching vocabulary to infants and toddlers, and children with language developmental disorders. To accomplish the objective, a preliminary study was conducted to select basic vocabulary acquired by infants and toddlers. Based on previous studies, 614 basic words for infants and toddlers were selected after reliability and validity tests were conducted from the words selected first. Based on the preliminary study, a validity test was conducted on seven teachers for infants and toddlers, to identify whether the words selected in the preliminary study are appropriate for young children. The research findings are as follows. First, there were a total of 353 basic words that were extracted from those with an average of 4.0 or above in the importance ratings selected by teachers for infants and toddlers. Second, when the ultimately-selected basic words for infants and toddlers were classified by word class, the ratio was in the following order: nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Third, when the ultimately-selected basic words for infants and toddlers were classified by semantic domain, the ratio was in the order of object, food, people, and body, which exclude domains of behavior and states that predominantly include verbs and adjectives. If therapeutic data is developed based on the vocabulary list presented by this study, it will serve as a standard for vocabulary education for infants and toddlers.