Approaches to Develop the Glossary Part of Communicative Korean I Textbook in the Faculty of Humanities Kasetsart University

Abstract

This research aims to present the approaches in developing the glossary part of Communicative Korean I textbook. Researcher studied the relation between “the correctness of memorizing vocabularies and meanings” and “the hypothesis related to word-occurring and the accomplishment in memorizing vocabularies” by dividing this study into two parts 1) Quantitative Research 2) Qualitative Research. In quantitative research, researcher examined “the correctness of memorizing vocabularies and meanings” from 404 vocabularies and the samples were 231 learners in Communicative Korean I who had passed instructing in the program. Afterwards, researcher used the SPSS program in analyzing and generating the data. In Qualitative Research, researcher employed the vocabularies which were at the highest average in memorizing and the lowest average in memorizing in analyzing word-occurring in the textbook in order to find out the relation between word-occurring and the accomplishment in memorizing vocabularies and meanings. Besides, researcher studied the frequency in words-occurring by studying the “contexts where these vocabularies occurred”. The result reveals that the frequency of word-occurring in textbook is not the only factor influenced on the accomplishment in memorizing vocabularies and meanings, but the contexts where these vocabularies occurred also is an important factor influenced on the accomplishment in memorizing vocabularies and meanings. Finally, Researcher employed the results from both Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research in presenting the approaches in developing the glossary part of Communicative Korean I textbook latter.