한국언어과학회

The aim of the current study is to analyze the contents of test items from the written component of the secondary school English teacher recruitment exam from 2009 to 2021. Among the test items, only the items from the field of English education were collected, and in total, 137 test items were identified. The five different categories provided by the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation were used to analyze the items. The findings are as follows: 17(12.4%) test items were associated with second language acquisition; 16(11.7%) with materials development; 23(16.8%) with English assessment and English methodology; 43(31.4%) with listening, speaking, reading, and writing; and 15(10.9%) with grammar and vocabulary, respectively. Out of these categories, the 4 skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) were taken up the most, followed by English assessment and English methodology; second language acquisition; and materials development. With regard to the percentage of test items in the field of English education, the average percentage was 37.4%; and the school year which made up the largest portion was 2016 (47.5%) and 2020 (30%) the least. Implications and limitations were also discussed.