Investigating Korean High School Students’Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Speed

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The present research was to investigate whether Korean high schoolstudents have an adequate receptive knowledge of the 2,000 mostfrequently used words of English, and to see how fast Korean high schoolstudents read English texts with appropriate reading comprehension. Boththe Korean high school students belonging to the 11th grade and the 12thgrade got correct less than 80% of the items in a 2,000 most frequentEnglish vocabulary test and thus failed to acquire an adequate receptivevocabulary knowledge (around 90%). In addition, Korean high schoolstudents reading 160 words per minute (160 wpm) read much more slowlythan learners of ESL students or native speakers of English reading250-300 wpm. Results indicated that learning and teaching programs forvocabulary and reading fast are needed in school. These findings willcontribute to leading researchers and practitioners to make concertedefforts to better design and actively implement sound education programsfor English vocabulary and reading best fit in the Korean EFL context.

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