대학수학능력시험 영어 영역에 나타난 파생 접사에 관한 코퍼스 연구: 기본 어휘 관련 지침을 중심으로

The present study first investigated whether the distribution of derivative affixes is the same across the four recently conducted English exams of College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), irrespective of the fact that a headword and all of its inflectional and derivational forms were defined to belong to a single word by the 2015 Revised National Curriculum of English. It was shown that this new definition did not affect the distribution of dervatives in the exams. The study then explored how to define representative derivative affixes that are currently used in the English exams of CSAT. Calculation of the coefficient of usage of derivative affixes showed that the following 13 suffixes are representative: -al, -ly, -ation, -ion, -er, -ity, -ive, -ment, -able, -ic, -ize, -ful, and un-. These affixes are in contrast with the representative affixes used in elementary and middle school English textbooks. Some implications of these findings are briefly discussed.