초등학교와 중학교 세계지리의 어휘 비교 분석

Abstract

In this study we analysed vocabularies in the world geographies of primary and middle schooland compared the results. Analysis and comparison were made in terms of linguistics, main subjects, andwriting vocabularies. Linguistic analysis includes individual vocabulary number, total vocabularynumber, appearance frequency of vocabulary, and vocabulary by rank. Main subjects analysis includes 10domains which consist of location, physical environment, culture etc. And writing vocabularies analysis isbased on some paragraphs of textbooks.As a result of this study, increasing rate of vocabularies volume in world geography is very high between primary and middle school. Especially individual vocabulary number, and total vocabularynumber are increasingd 2.24 times, 3.28 times respectively. Expert vocabularies, ie the third ranking andthe more vocabularies are increasingd 15% in middle school than primary. And vocabularies by subjectsare increasingd 3.21 times in middle school than primary. Concretely, increasing rates of culture, industry,culture, region, and physical environment are 5.57, 4.67, 3.50, and 2.50 respectively. Finally while writingvocabularies in primary school are concentrated in one concept without its definition, too manyderivatives are used in writing of middle geography textbook.We think students’ literacy and understanding about world geography will be decreased because of toohigh increasing rate of vocabularies between primary and middle school. So increasing rate ofvocabularies in geography must be decreased in considering students’ vocabularies development level.and it should not be over 1: 2.00 increasing rate in geography.