일본어 유의어의 도식화 교수법 연구를 위한 어휘조사

Abstract

Education on synonym is an area that is neglected during curriculum planning. Therefore, a preliminary survey was conducted on basic vocabulary for the Japanese textbook targeting students with Korean as their mother tongue. The initial literature investigation revealed 185 relevant synonyms in 8 different parts. Out of these, 84 synonyms were picked with a criterion that more than a third of the respondents indicated the need for further education. More specifically, the list consisted of 40 verbs, 15 nouns, 9 adjectives, 9 adverbs, 5 postposition, 3 Usage, 2 conjunction, and 1 auxiliary verb. In areas such as auxiliary verb and Usage where there is a heavy emphasis in the curriculum, students show limited need for further review indicated by only 1 to 3 synonyms that were hard to learn. On the other hand, students identified 15 to 40 nouns and verbs, which naturally have higher number of words. This demonstrates the need for further education in these areas. The survey also sampled 18 JRT with Japanese as their mother tongue about the same 185 synonyms. As a result, it was found that the areas that the JRT found to be difficult to teach was similar to what high level KJS found difficult to learn. In contrast, mid to low level KJS students had disparity with the Japanese teachers in the ranking of difficulty. For example, KJS ranked ‘muku·au·mukeru’ as 1st whereas JRT ranked it as 35th. ‘wakareru·hagureru·hanareru’, ‘utsu·tataku· naguru’, and were ranked by KJS as 7th, 24th, respectively but these were ranked outside of the 40th range by JRT. This indicates that what JRT perceives to be easy to explain is often not what KJS perceives to be easy to learn. It was found that 93% of respondents felt the need for the making and teaching of synonym education materials. Future work needs to be focused on determining the best way to test KJS on the synonyms.