日本人英語初学者のための基本語彙(動詞)を求めて : 「コアネス」を視点に

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This paper discusses "basic verbs" for Japanese learners of EFL at the junior high school level, which is part of the author's attempt to compose a "basic word list for Japanese beginners of EFL at the junior high school level." The verbs in the defining vocabulary of Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, the most common verbs in the English language in the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English, and the verbs used in the seven English textbooks currently used at the junior high school in Japan are surveyed, and the overlap among these three groups of data are compared. In an attempt to extract "basic" verbs, the concept of "coreness" (Carter, 1998) was employed to test the relevant verbs from the three groups of vocabulary. Some 85 verbs emerged as "basic." The remaining about 100 verbs, which seems to be the number of words proportionate to the total number of words in the Course of Study, are yet to be identified. For further investigation, a perspective from the learning of basic English structures needs to be incorporated into the results obtained herein.
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