Lexical Threshold of L2 Reading in the Korean CSAT
- Authors
- 전유아
- Issue Date
- Jun-2014
- Publisher
- 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
- Keywords
- 대학수학능력시험; 말뭉치; 어휘; 어휘 범위; 어휘 한계점; College Scholastic Ability Test; corpus; vocabulary; word coverage; lexical threshold
- Citation
- 영미연구, v.31, pp.341 - 376
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 영미연구
- Volume
- 31
- Start Page
- 341
- End Page
- 376
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/144639
- ISSN
- 2508-4135
- Abstract
- For over two decades in Korea, no other English exam has been able toreplace the high-stakes Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT).
From a lexical perspective, there has been transient analysis of the readingpassages, however, without sufficient attention it deserves as thenationally administered exam. Twenty-one years of the main CSAT ofEnglish reading texts for academic years 1994 through 2014 were utilizedto compile a specialized, small corpus. For analysis, lexical richness(STTR) was calculated, and distribution of the CSAT words across thefourteen word bands of the British National Corpus (BNC) was searchedwith RANGE to propose a lexical threshold level. By STTR, lexical varietyindicated to be steady over the twenty-one years of the CSAT. However,the recent 2014B CSAT exhibited a noticeable increase of words comparedto the CSAT in previous years, pressuring test-takers to improve readingfluency. The range and the percentage of CSAT words across the 14 wordbands of the BNC indicated test-takers to minimally need a threshold of6,000 word families for 95% coverage (including proper nouns) of theCSAT reading passages. The study ends with implications for L2vocabulary learning.
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