청각장애아동의 언어교육에 대한 배경에 기초하여 본 연구는 청각장애 특수학교 5, 6학년용 국어 교과서의 읽기 본문에 나타나는 어휘들을 분석하고자 한다. 분석의 기본적인 목적은 청각장애아동의 언어지도시 체계적이고 조직적인 어휘 지도 목표와 내용 선정을 위한 준거를 마련하는 데 있다. 본 연구의 수행은 이러한 기본 목적 아래, 제7차 특수학교 교육과정 중의 일환으로 진행 중인 청각장애 특수학교 국어 교과서 개발과 편찬의 기초 정보를 제공하게 될 것이며, 적정 학습을 위한 어휘량과 수준 설정을 위한 준거를 제공하게 될 것이다.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the vocabulary of korean lan-guage textbook for the deaf to design language instruction effectively at 5th and 6th grade. Total 20,541 running words was analyzed depending on frequency, a part of word, grammatical particle, and domain of meaning. The 5th grade had 7,783 running words and 1,721 different words and the 6th grade had 10,102 runing vvords and 2,802 different words. the highest frequency words were 'hada', 'itta', 'mal', 'wuri' et c. In word class distri- bution, noun appeared 60% and more, next ranked verb, adjective, adverb orderly. Single words were twice more than sum of composed words and derivative words. There was not a consistent basis to select vocabularies in analysis by domain of meaning. Because selecting words was depending on the topic of story, many words were out of fashion and some words were excessively moral. In the future, when we develop korean language textbook and design language instruction plan for the students with hearing impairment, the basis of selecting vocabulary have to be considered thoughtfully as well as content and syntax.
