Sun-Hee Lee - A Frequency Dictionary of Korean

A Frequency Dictionary of Korean is an invaluable tool for all learners of Korean, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on the Sejong National Corpora, the largest written and spoken corpora in Korean comprised of 10 million words collected from different genres, the Dictionary provides the user with detailed information for each of the entries, including illustrative examples and English translations. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguists. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Korean enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way. Sun-Hee Lee is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Wellesley College, USA. Sang Kyu Seo is a professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University, Korea. Routledge Frequency DictionariesGeneral Editors Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Mark Davies, Brigham Young University, USAEditorial Board Michael Barlow, University of Auckland, New Zealand Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University, UK Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz, Poland Josef Schmied, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Andrew Wilson, Lancaster University, UK Adam Kilgarriff, Lexicography MasterClass Ltd and University of Sussex, UK Hongying Tao, University of California at Los Angeles Chris Tribble, Kings College London, UKOther books in the seriesA Frequency Dictionary of ArabicA Frequency Dictionary of CzechA Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American EnglishA Frequency Dictionary of DutchA Frequency Dictionary of GermanA Frequency Dictionary of FrenchA Frequency Dictionary of GermanA Frequency Dictionary of JapaneseA Frequency Dictionary of KoreanA Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin ChineseA Frequency Dictionary of PortugueseA Frequency Dictionary of SpanishCore vocabulary for learnersSun-Hee Lee, Seok Bae Jang, and Sang Kyu Seo First published 2017
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business 2017 Sun-Hee Lee, Seok Bae Jang, and Sang Kyu Seo The right of Sun-Hee Lee, Seok Bae Jang, and Sang Kyu Seo to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Routledge Frequency DictionariesGeneral Editors Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Mark Davies, Brigham Young University, USAEditorial Board Michael Barlow, University of Auckland, New Zealand Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University, UK Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz, Poland Josef Schmied, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Andrew Wilson, Lancaster University, UK Adam Kilgarriff, Lexicography MasterClass Ltd and University of Sussex, UK Hongying Tao, University of California at Los Angeles Chris Tribble, Kings College London, UKOther books in the seriesA Frequency Dictionary of ArabicA Frequency Dictionary of CzechA Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American EnglishA Frequency Dictionary of DutchA Frequency Dictionary of GermanA Frequency Dictionary of FrenchA Frequency Dictionary of GermanA Frequency Dictionary of JapaneseA Frequency Dictionary of KoreanA Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin ChineseA Frequency Dictionary of PortugueseA Frequency Dictionary of SpanishCore vocabulary for learnersSun-Hee Lee, Seok Bae Jang, and Sang Kyu Seo First published 2017
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business 2017 Sun-Hee Lee, Seok Bae Jang, and Sang Kyu Seo The right of Sun-Hee Lee, Seok Bae Jang, and Sang Kyu Seo to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Names: Yi, Son-hui, 1968- author. | Chang, Sok-pae, 1968- author. paper) | ISBN 9781138781818 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138781856 (cd) | ISBN 9781315561417 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Korean languageUsageDictionaries. | Korean languageTextbooks for foreign speakers. | Korean languageStudy and teachingForeign speakers.
Classification: LCC PL935 .Y7 2016 | DDC 495.73/21dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049088 ISBN: 978-1-138-78179-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-78181-8 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-78185-6 (CD)
ISBN: 978-1-315-56141-7 (ebk) Typeset in Parisine
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Frequency information has a central role to play in learning a language. | Korean languageStudy and teachingForeign speakers.
Classification: LCC PL935 .Y7 2016 | DDC 495.73/21dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049088 ISBN: 978-1-138-78179-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-78181-8 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-78185-6 (CD)
ISBN: 978-1-315-56141-7 (ebk) Typeset in Parisine
by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong

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Frequency information has a central role to play in learning a language.

Nation (1990) showed that the 4,0005,000 most frequent words account for up to 95% of a written ?text and the 1,000 most frequent words account for 85% of speech. Although Nations results were only for English, they do provide clear evidence that, when employing frequency as a general guide for vocabulary learning, it is possible to acquire a lexicon which will serve a learner well most of the time. There are two caveats to bear in mind here. First, counting words is not as straightforward as it might seem. Gardner (2007) highlights the problems that multiple word meanings, the presence of multiword items, and grouping words into families or lemmas have on counting and analyzing words. Second, frequency data contained in frequency dictionaries should never act as the only information source to guide a learner.