著者

津村 敏雄

出版者

東京大学大学院総合文化研究科言語情報科学専攻

雑誌

言語情報科学 (ISSN:13478931)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, pp.137-148, 2010-03-01

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The purpose of this study is intended as a part of a comparison of English education in Japan with that in South Korea. In both countries, the entrance examination which is the nation's most widely used as admissions test among colleges and universities has been conducted for a long time. In Japan, the entrance examination is called 'National Center Test for University Admissions'; in South Korea, it is called 'College Scholastic Ability Test.'It assesses not only students'knowledge of English skills but also the critical thinking abilities which students need for academic success in college and university. The author chronically analyzed both English examinations which had been conducted from 1994 to 2009 especially focused on vocabulary with special reference to token, type, readability, and distribution of the vocabulary control list. The findings of this analysis show that the number of vocabulary in the entrance examination of both countries has been increasing gradually since 1994, and that the entrance examination of South Korea has a tendency to use wider range of vocabulary in the vocabulary control list as well as larger vocabulary in number than that of Japan.