There are two aims in this paper. Frist is to present the condition and prospect of Korean vocabulary education for foreigners through traditional teaching approach. Second is to find how to implement various approaches into Korean vocabulary education study. Vocabulary, in recent years, has assumed a more important role in second language acquisition, especially is influenced by the communicative approach, the lexical approach, and the development of corpus-linguistics. There is a need for review of current trends of vocabulary education studies in order to keep abreast of various studies. Six topics are discussed in this article: (1) vocabulary knowledge (2) explicit teaching and implicit learning vocabulary acquisition process and mental lexicon, (3) separating vocabulary, (4) multi-word chunks, (5) corpus, and (6) vocabulary learning strategies. (Korea University)
