일본어 어휘습득 향상을 위한 이미지 도식화 교수법에 대한 연구

Abstract

The present study is aiming to investigate on the effectiveness of teaching method for Japanese vocabularylearning and suggest the effective teaching method to distinguish the meanings of Japanese synonyms for NNSlearners. In the study, the vocabulary teaching method is defined as the image schematization method, whichexpects to foster Japanese synonym learning under the time constrained learning environment. To collect thedata, the quasi-experimental design was formed and the 80-minute-instruction for vocabulary learning andthe pre-and-post set of vocabulary tests were conducted. For the instructional treatments, 20 items, extractedfrom 185 synonyms that are frequently misworded in Japanese vocabulary learning were instructed and theitems consist of nouns(N=3), adjectives (N=3), adverbs(N=2) and prepositions(N=10). In the results, the total score of vocabulary learning test was increased up to 44% and the mean scores werereported as 59% in control group (without synonym) and 28% in experimental group(with synonym)respectively. For the further comparison, vocabulary learning groups were divided into three levels; elementary,intermediate. In the control group, the increase of vocabulary learning was highly reported in the intermediatedlevel, and the increases of advanced and elementary levels were reported in sequence. It implies that vocabularyin the elementary level includes low level of understandings. By contrast, in the experimental group, theincrease of vocabulary learning was highly reported in the elementary level, and the increases of intermediateand advanced levels were reported in sequence. It implies that providing synonyms for vocabulary learning iseffective for the elementary level but not for the advanced level. In addition, in the comparison of parts of speech learning, the elementary level showed the higher increase onnoun acquisition, the intermediate level showed some increase on most parts of speech, and the advanced levelreported the higher increase on nouns, adjectives and adverbs respectively. It implies that noun acquisitionwith image schematization method is effective on Japanese vocabulary learning for elementary and advancedlevels of NNS learners. In addition, the study conducted the course evaluation from students and found that55% of participants have never been instructed with synonym instruction for Japanese vocabulary learning andexpressed the strong preference on synonym instruction and image schematization method(i.e. 98% of totalresponses).