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The main purpose of this study is to analyse the middle school students' attitude toward the Korean and the math class through the semantic differential measures and to compare the two. Osgood (1957) suggests that there are three semantic dimensions when estimating the image about something: evaluation, potency, and activity. Evaluation loads highest on the adjective pair 'good-bad'. The 'strong-weak' adjective pair defines the potency factor. Adjective pair 'active-passive' defines the activity factor. In this article, the questionnaire contains total 32 pairs of adjectives: 16 pairs of adjective for evaluation, 8 pairs for potency, and 8 pairs for activity.
Each items has five levels positioning the two opposing adjectives at the tips. And the respondents are asked to choose the levels. The results show there are meaningful differences between the two subjects according to the gender, grades, reading skills and their preferences of the subject. Also the students' attitudes toward Korean class is more positive than those toward math class. Considering that people's attitudes relate their positive or negative evaluations for an object, the students' positive attitudes toward Korean class will positively affect their Korean learning in real class.