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KMID : 0366519820020000147
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Annual Bulletin Seoul Health
1982 Volume.2 No. 0 p.147 ~ p.160
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A Study on Vocabulary Problems Unfavorable to English Mastery
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Abstract
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This study aims to find some vocabulary problems which have an unfavorable and unintended effect on the mastery of English. The vocabulary in the textbooks of high school English is examined in terms of its numerical size, its practicability, and its recurring frequency, with the theoretical background of ´within a limited vocabulary " which Fries emphasizes in the course of language mastery.
The followings are the results of this examination.
1) The vocabulary is not properly limited and is of such an excessively large size that the word study actually deprives the students of most of their time and attention which might otherwise be given to the training of the sound system and sentence structure and to the drill of four linguistic skills.
2) The vocabulary is not properly selected for the effective mastery of English. The limitation of vocabulary should have been strictly applied to the deliberate selection of the practicable words. As a result, many of the basic and important words necessary for the training of the sounds and structures seldom occur and so remain unfamiliar to the students, whereas there occur many of the impracticable words that are rarely employed in ordinary English and that have little to do with the actual training.
3) The vocabulary is not properly recurring for its effective memorization. Perfect familiarization comes about only after ceaseless repetition drill. Only 10
to 20 percent of the new words in each lesson recur 2 to 5 times in the folio - wing 5 lessons, and more than 70 percent never occur again until the whole text-book is finished. This seems to account for the students´ poor word power.
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