Analyses of the explicitness of activities in high school English textbooks. (고등학교 영어 교과서에 제시된 활동의 명시성 분석)

Jin-Kyong Lee (이진경)

Analyses of the explicitness of activities in high school English textbooks.

Modern English Education
Abbr : MEESO
2014, 15(4), pp.171-191
Publisher : The Modern English Education Society
Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Language Teaching

Jin-Kyong Lee ¹

¹대구가톨릭대학교

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ABSTRACT

Activities are the minimal teaching units in which teaching becomes operative in theclassroom. This study aimed to measure the degree of explicitness of activities in High school English textbooks. Explicitness of activities might entail importantconsequences in relation to the methodological approach. Explicitness is typicallyassociated with conscious and declarative knowledge; implicitness with unconscious, automatic and procedural knowledge. However, the concepts of explicitness andimplicitness are complex and difficult to be measured. The study used 9 componentconstruct of explicitness to analyze the activities, which themselves consist of goalsand strategies in the study. Total 198 activities from four English textbooks wereexamined according to the 9 components and results were produced as follows. Firstly, on the whole, the degree of explicitness of activities was higher than that ofimplicitness. More specifically, grammar and vocabulary activities showed higher level of explicitness while skill (listening, speaking, and writing) activities showed apreponderance of implicitness over explicitness. Secondly, from the view of 9components, activities could be characterized as ‘use of non-authentic materials’ and‘controlled use of the language’. Thirdly, ‘requirement of the use of L1’ and ‘nonmeaningful mechanical repetition’ were the features not discovered. The results willhopefully offer criteria for the materials development and evaluation in terms of thedegree of explicitness and/or implicitness. Pedagogical implications and some ideas for the future research were suggested.

KEYWORDS

explicitness, implicitness, activities

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