The Basic Vocabulary List of the 2022 Revised National Curriculum of English: Development and application

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This paper outlines the major characteristics of the Basic Vocabulary List (BVL) of the 2022 Revised National Curriculum of English (RNCE), with special reference to the revisions made to the BVL of the 2015 RNCE. Some important features of the BVL of the 2022 RNCE are the following. First, the list is made up of 3,000 words, assuming the basic lexical unit to be a word family that consists of a headword and all its inflectional variations and a limited number of derivative forms, if any. Second, based on the recent findings that EFL learners have a shallow knowledge of word derivation, the list allows forms derived only by 36 derivational affixes to be included in word families. Third, the 3,000 words in the list are classified into three groups: the first group of 800 words for elementary school students, the second group of 1,200 words for middle school and firstyear high school students, and the third group of 1,000 words for second- and third-year high school students. Along with some further minor revisions, the ways in which the three revisions have been made will be shown. The paper concludes with some pedagogical implications of the BVL of the 2022 RNCE. © 2023 KASELL. All rights reserved.

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