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This study examines the discourse features in reading passages of revised North Korean high school English textbooks (NKHSETs). For the purpose of this study, three NKHSETs are analyzed with Wordsmith 6.0 and Coh-Metrix Webtools to investigate the cohesiveness, readability of each reading passage and their grade level relationships. Vocabulary and sentence length show similar results in all three textbooks, and the values increase continuously by grade. However, the reading passages of NKHSETs that have an average of 10.41 words per sentence are found to be syntactically simple. Next, the texts are measured to have low cohesion and low grade level relationships. In addition, compared to South Korean High school English textbooks, the Flesch Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL) grades of NKHSET are lower. As expected, there is a lack of opportunity for learners in North Korea to experience linguistic clues that could help them understand texts through reading passages. For this reason, North Korean learners should be given not only grammatical forms but also authentic texts that take both cohesion and content into account. Based on these results, it would be helpful to supplement the discourse competence by developing the FKGL from 4th to 8th grade English textbooks for North Korean students.

목차

I. 서론
II. 이론적 배경
2.1. 교과서 읽기 지문의 담화적 특성
2.2. 선행연구
III. 연구방법
3.1. 분석대상 및 방법
IV. 연구 결과 및 논의
4.1. 어휘 및 문장 길이
4.2. 응집성 및 FKGL 분석 결과
V. 결론 및 제언
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저자

• 주윤하 [ Yunha Joo | 전남대학교 대학원생 ] 주저자
• 엄철주 [ Chul Joo Uhm | 전남대학교 교수 ] 교신저자

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820