【Abstract】
A Study on Basic Vocabulary Selection of Korean for Major Field of Studies for Foreign Students
-With focus on Majors in Business Administration-
Lee, Young Woo
Department of Global Korean Studies
Graduate School of Culture ...
【Abstract】
A Study on Basic Vocabulary Selection of Korean for Major Field of Studies for Foreign Students
-With focus on Majors in Business Administration-
Lee, Young Woo
Department of Global Korean Studies
Graduate School of Culture Creation
Kyung Hee Cyber University
This study is aimed at giving assistance to foreign students by making clear the basic vocabulary for business administration major by doing research with focus on the text for the major subject- ‘Principles of Business Administration’ which foreign students in business and economics come to study on entering college.
Unlike the case where domestic colleges require foreign students to possess the Korean ability equivalent to Class-3~4 in the certified Test of Proficiency in Korean(TOPIK), it’s really a difficult situation to foreign students who have to learn major subject terms which are hard even to domestic students.
Most of the foreign students come to be in contact with major subject terms at the same time when they enter college without any preparation for major subject terms before college entrance, which makes it more difficult for them to carry out schoolwork.
Actually, most of the business administration major vocabulary is used in a different meaning from ‘Communication-centered Korean’ which they learned before.
Moreover, a great many words are composed of Sino-Korean words, and not a few foreign words are used mixed with the Sino-Korean words, or used in another different meaning through the mutual combination between words in many cases.
It’s true that a largest number of foreign applicants for domestic colleges are entering the field of business and economics, but, extremely insufficient is the vocabulary research or teaching method for foreign students in the department of business administration as yet. Accordingly, this study grasped the major vocabulary that should be essentially mastered in the curriculum through the analysis of the vocabulary with focus on the currently used 9 textbooks for ‘Principles of Business Administration’ by selecting 10 major universities in metropolitan area.
This study extracted about 260,000 frequencies of use, and 3,551 words around a noun by analyzing 1,010,000 words included in the 9 books. Then, this study extracted 1,475 high frequency words again, which accounted for more than 50% of total frequency numbers. This means mastering 1,475 words leads to the understanding more than 50% frequencies out of the noun-form word frequencies. However, this study found that there were a considerable number of words which were overlapped with ‘Korean words for general purpose’ in 1,475 high-frequency words. In order to remove the overlapping words, this study first removed the word overlapped with the elementary-intermediate level words set in Test Proficiency in Korean, and also extracted 546 words excluding non-major words by implementing ‘the Primary Word Rating’ using the ‘Group In-depth Interview’ method targeting majors in business administration.
This study used the ‘Secondary Vocabulary Rating’ as the process for re-inclusion of the removed words during the primary vocabulary rating after verifying them, and implemented the ‘Secondary Vocabulary Rating’ targeting more specialized ‘Management Consultants’ than the Primary Vocabulary Rating. In addition, this study adopted the vocabulary recommended by more than 4 persons out of 10 judges of ‘Productivity Management System (PMS) Certification’, and added a total of 97 words, such as 14 words from the elementary vocabulary, 45 words from the intermediate vocabulary, 38 re-recommended words after being dropped out of raw corpus, Through this, a total of 643 words were secured.
The ‘Tertiary Vocabulary Rating is the task process for classifying 643 lexicons of the major subjects after finishing the secondary rating as ‘basic vocabulary for major subjects’ and ‘intensive major vocabulary’ and the tertiary rating was conducted by 3 major ‘professors in business administration’, and this study excluded them from the basic vocabulary for major subjects by classifying the vocabulary selected by more than 2 professors as intensive major vocabulary. As a result of the tertiary rating, this study could extract the final output of 625 words exclusive of a total of 18 ‘intensive major words.”
The cumulative frequency of 625 ‘basic words for business administration major’ is about 30%, being found to have a lot more frequency coverage per 1 word in comparison with 1475 noun words whose cumulative coverage was 50%. This is a significant numerical value meaning that it can cover 30% of the average noun words appearance of the 9 texts in case of learning 625 noun-form words.
However, a considerable portion of 850 rejected words which were excluded from the lexis of 1,475 nouns whose coverage is 50% are also are used in departments of business and economics differently from the already learned words in ‘Korean for general purpose’; accordingly, this study surveyed & included their frequency sentences.
Finally, this study roughly classified the subjects of business management major books as ’11 subjects’ and re-classified the research subjects, or 9 textbooks, and a total of 127 Units into a category by subject. After doing a corpus task of individual categories, this study extracted 100 multi-frequency words evenly by each subject by doing comparative analysis of ‘625 basic words for business administration major’; as a result, this study could draw a very dissimilar result by each subject. For example, the word of ‘Investment’ appeared in the highest frequency in ‘Accounting & Financial Management Category’, but the word was dropped out of the ranking in ‘Organization Management Category.’ In addition, the word of ‘Start-up’ was the highest frequency word in ‘Start-up & Informatization’ cat
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