Until now, there has been little study, if any, in teaching Korean as a foreign language in French-speaking countries compared to relevant studies in the English, Chinese or Japanese-speaking areas Against this backdrop, two Korean teaching materials, namely `Korean 1`, `Integrated Korean Beginning 1`, have been selected to analyze their merits and defects when actuall..
This research takes a critical stance and analyzes research trends in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language as published in the Journal of Korean Language Education, one of the major journals in the field A total of 330 studies, employing either primary research methods (ie, quantitative, qualitative or combining both) or secondary research methods, published in the Jour..
Language is transferred from speaker to hearer in the form of phones and letters in any situation of utterance Therefore the teaching materials of Korean language must be made in the form of multimedia teaching materials And teachers and students must be able to use the multimedia teaching materials at various teaching and learning environments For this, we must make mater..
Based on statistical data, the writer presents an overview of the 8th TOPIK conducted in 2004, casting light on certain problems involving its management and execution Following this, the writer suggests several solutions Firstly, in order to develop the TOPIK as a scientific test and to enhance its quality, it is necessary to conduct systematic and in-depth research on ..
This study aims to introduce the principles and methods of developing of Web-based Korean Language Program This program is on an educational purpose of improving the communicational ability on foreign Korean learners It is composed of integration of four language skills listening, speaking, reading, and writing And, it offers various practice materials to enhance the ac..
This paper is purposed for searching the effective ways and possibilities in teaching Korean language using the Korean typical Dokkaebi Tales such as `DokkaebiBangmangi` and `DokkaebiGamtu` Dokkaebi is a supernatural being with unusual powers It is generally described as a tall figure having two canine teeth and one or two horns Yet, its traditional figure in Korean fol..
In this study, we investigate L2 acquisition process of Korean onset plosives by 8 monolingual German native speakers with no prior knowledge on the target language We suggest that the acquisition process of Korean words by Germans takes place not in a random, but in a hierarchic way, reflecting the perceptual difficulties in learning certain phonological features It is fo..
The purpose of this paper is to share an interim result of an elite Korean language education program, so-called KFOP-KU (Korean Flagship Overseas Program-Korea University) This program purports to educate a group of American elite learners of the Korean language in respective subject area to meet the demands in the field Language education in the past century has been ..
The Korean Language has been adopted as a subject of foreign language tests in the Center Test, entrance examination for University in Japan, conducted by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology from January 2002 Comparing with Korean`s being adopted as one of foreign language tests in SAT, entrance examination for University in United States..
This study is intended to analyze how hanta form and hako issta form show in Korean textbooks, find the teaching problems of two types based on the analysis and suggest the improved program The following are what this paper suggests (1) Its more advisable to explain hanta and hako issta types systematically in the grammar system of tense and aspect than to arrange the usages ..
This study examines the definition, research foundation of Content-Based Instruction (CBI), and three content-based teaching models (theme-based language instruction, sheltered content instruction, and adjunct language instruction) CBI is considered ideal for enhancing motivation, accessing cultural background, extending students` awareness for critical thinking, ..