This study investigated the use of the amplifier very in high school English textbooks and native corpora by comparing its frequency distributions and collocation patterns. The native corpora, used as the reference of the study, were COCA and BNC, with their built-in sub-corpora further grouped into spoken and written corpora. The High School English Textbook Corpus (HSETC) was compiled from a total of 53 high school textbooks, with the spoken corpus (HSETC-S) from the texts in listening and conversation and the written corpus (HSETC-W) from the reading passages. Analyses using AntConc3.4.4 revealed no prominent differences between HSETC and reference corpora in the frequency of the amplifier very, while the written corpus (HSETC-W) had more occurrences contrary to the native corpora. The combination patterns and their occurrences of HSETC were slightly different from those of COCA and BNC with the gap increased with the spoken corpus (HSETC-S). Pedagogical implications and suggestions are made on ELT materials development and teaching practices.

본 연구는 성인들이 영어를 익히고 영어에 대한 자신감을 키우면서 회화 능력을 향상시킬 수 있는 학습 방법으로서 35개의 영어패턴을 활용한 70일간의 자기주도학습 과정으로 설계된 패턴영어학습법의 효과를 조사하고, 더 나은 패턴영어학습법을 설계하기 위한 요인들을 도출 할 목적으로 진행하였다. 본 연구를 진행하기 위해 비영어전공 성인 126명을 대상으로 학습자가 느끼는 영어수준과 영어의 필요성에 대한 정도, 선호하는 학습방법을 조사하였고, 이들 중 본 프로젝트에 참여한 10명을 대상으로 70일 동안 매일 평균 30분씩 패턴영어 학습과 일일과제 수행을 온라인으로 진행하였다. 학습결과로 학생들이 작성한 일일과제 결과와 사전설문지, 녹취자료를 종합적으 로 분석하여 다음과 같은 결론을 도출하였다. 패턴영어 학습법은 빠른 시간 내에 영어능력을 향상시키고 싶은 성인들에게 실용적인 방법 이며, 패턴영어는 뼈대가 되는 완성된 문장을 스스로 반복적으로 연습하여 익숙하게 만드는 과정이 우선적으로 중요하기 때문에 자기주도학습 프로그램으로 학습 과정을 설계하는 것도 용이한 것으로 나타났다.

This study aims to develop an English writing model using pattern-based reading materials and to apply it to the elementary classroom. The meaning of “patterns” was searched for in the language learning and teaching methods, and their roles were examined in terms of language acquisition and learning. The writing class was connected to the reading class so that learners could properly model and transfer their forms and meanings of the patterns recognized in the reading class to what they want to write in the writing class. The experiment was conducted on one class of grade 6 elementary school students in which the reading and writing class was integrated into the regular English class during one semester. Six pattern-based reading materials were selected with a range of genres including stories and poems. The effect of the pattern-based reading materials on the writing class was examined through writing test and a questionnaire about the affective domain before and after the experiment. The result showed that writing scores were increased significantly in all the leveled-group learners. As for the affective domain, interest, participation, confidence, and adventure each had a significantly increased score. The sense of adventure increased the most. This is considered attributable to the feedback which ignored grammatically trivial errors and focused on how to properly express the contents learners wanted to write.