효율적인 漢字語 敎育을 위한 등급별 漢字語 목록의 漢字 頻度 硏究

Abstract

This study aims to determine the frequency of Chinese characters in the seven graded lexicon and to provide an efficient methodology for Sino- Korean vocabulary learning. This research looks at the frequency of 5,249 Chinese characters taken from the 186,982 Sino-Korean words listed in the lexicon. The following Chinese characters are the most common (in descending order): 學> 人> 不> 生> 法> 大> 化> 地> 性> 物. Given the cumulative frequency and cumulate rate at which certain Chinese characters occur, this study shows that to learn 50% of the Sino-Korean words in the lexicon, you need to know only 337 Chinese characters. The characters 人, 生, 大, 學 were found to be common in four other studies, so we can conclude that these characters are particularly useful for Sino- Korean vocabulary education based on word formation ability. This study also finds that the low- and high-frequency characters are different depending on the grade of the lexicon. Therefore, this paper shows that the number of characters needed for the graded expansion of Sino-Korean vocabulary does not place too much of a burden on learners. In addition, the positional frequency of the 50 highest-frequency Chinese characters is 39.39% in the first position; 57.5% in the final position; and 2.68% in the middle. So the highest frequency Chinese characters are most commonly found at the end of the word. These positional frequency research findings can help us to develop more efficient Sino-Korean vocabulary education. This paper shows how we can apply the frequency of Chinese characters in teaching Sino-Korean vocabulary and the concrete teaching-learning method with ‘人, 生’.