중학교 사회 교과서 내의 학습 제재 설명 비교 연구 - 법 영역과 사회‧문화 영역의 비교 -

The purpose of this study is to verify the difference on the middle school freshmen`s degree of understanding at vocabulary between law field and societ y․culture field in social studies textbook. A subject for this inquiry is not about the degree of understanding on key concept but about the degree of understanding on vocabulary involved in explanation as to key concept in middle school social studies textbook. 203 first grade middle school students in Seoul(Gangbuk area) participated in this survey. These are the three main questions of this survey. 1) how much did the students exposed to the vocabularies in the questionnaires? 2) how much did the students think that they know the meaning of the vocabularies in the questionnaires? (self-estimation) 3) how much did the students actually know the meaning of the vocabularies in the questionnaires? (direct-estimation) In order to examine statistical significance, ANOVA were used. The results are as follows:1) For all of domains(degree of exposure, self-estimation, direct-estimation),the law field vocabularies is proved to be lower than the society․culture field vocabularies. 2) For background variables, sex, economic standard, amounts of reading, rank in class, father`s level of education are concerned with degree of understanding vocabulary. The cause of this result might because society․culture field vocabularies are often used in daily life but law field vocabularies are not. So when we develop social studies textbook or teach students in middle school social studies class or organize social studies curriculum, we should consider student`s ability in vocabulary as to law field.