In general, TOPIK grade 3 to 4 is required for foreign students to enter Korean universities. However, the content of TOPIK exams have a tendency to focus on everyday Korean. Therefore is it expected that university classes in Korea will be hard for foreign students, due to the advanced vocabulary used.
In order to solve this problem. this paper compared the usage of academic words in TOPIK II and EJU. TOPIK II is an assessment that mixes Korean for general and academic purposes. EJU is solely for academic purpose Japanese. Therefore, we hypothesized that the usage of academic words would be different for TOPIK II and EJU. We progress three different type of analysis, the Academic words of Cumulative Frequency, Individual words, and Lexical-semantic Network.
In analysis of Cumulative Frequency, More Academic words were used in TOPIK II than EJU. however, in case of usage of Individual words, EJU was higher than TOPIK II. Therefore, it is necessary to use various Academic words in TOPIK II. and In analysis of Lexical-semantic Network, we could find difference in category of ‘action’ only.