To find out what causes various miss-communication between Korean and Japanese people, we surveyed youths of Korea and Japan about their sense of language usage In one of the items for the survey, we asked the subjects about their estimation of their feelings in the case of someone else using or eating hisher possession without telling them to find out the difference of the ..
Recently, Korean language learners have been increasing year by year in Japanese universities This brought about the diversity of level, purpose and contents of learning, and agitates for developing new textbooks which meets needs of learners and teachers This study is based on an interview & questionnaires surveys on 20 students, 138 students and 31 teachers in Japanese u..
This paper presents the tasks and prospects for the field of Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language (TKFL) in terms of research methods This paper starts with emphasizing a crucial role research methods may play in establishing disciplinary identify of the field and promoting evidence-based TKFL It then shows the steps and procedures involved in carrying out and reportin..
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the present condition of placement and achievement tests which are being given in the Korean educational institutions and to propose a better plan for the two test types on the basis of the result The placement tests consist of written tests for writing and interviews for speaking The placement is done by considering the results of both..
This paper focuses on analyzing Japanese textbooks Nihongo-o Manabou1, Nihongo-o Manabou2, Nihongo-o Manabou3 In addition, These books were published for elementary school returnees and foreign worker`s children in Japan Prior to analyses for textbooks, I investigated two practical cases in Fukuoka City and Matsuyama City and reviewed their official documents rela..
This study aims to survey and analysis the expressional forms of Korean native speakers so that it can be used as the base of Korean language study material Even if a Korean language learner masters the exact grammatical forms, the learner would have trouble in real communication without understanding actual functions of the forms To learn both grammatical form itself and t..
The aim of this paper is to analyze the structural differences between the TOPIK and the Hangul Language Proficiency Test, which is administered in Japan In this paper, we confined our attention to the beginner`s level of these two tests and analyzed their test items in terms of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and discourse As a result, although they have the same nam..
There are many differences between the Korean Textbooks of the past and the most recent Korean Language Education materials While communicative language teaching and the integrative approach constitute the main current, more recent texts emphasize learning activities which focus on the learner In this study, and through the analysis of the Korean textbooks, learning acti..
The aim of this paper is to expound the characteristics of vocabulary in news articles and to present how to make vocabulary lists for a newspaper class The corpus of news article texts is analysed in terms of frequency of occurrence and coverage The result is as follows Vocabulary in news article texts includes more than 25,000 types About 80% of vocabulary in news article t..
In this study, I examined the characteristics of the communication function expressed in practical conversation and I discussed the plan of its application to the Korean Language Education In order to teach the communication function more effectively, we should make a practical application of the contents on the communication function education based on the principles of..
This study aims at presenting the development direction of Korean social and cultural teaching materials for Koreanology majors according to the necessity of the Korean language teaching materials and the needs of Korean language education in China for Koreanology majors We had found that investigating the characteristics and needs of students must precede all others to ..
The direction on the development of materials for teaching Korean for immigrant workers This paper is to show the result of the analysis on the needs from the part of an educatee on developing materials for teaching Korean for immigrant workers and also to demonstrate the examples on syllabus and structuring units based on the result The degree of needs and difficulty in com..
Error analysis is one of the most useful method for teaching foreign language This paper establishes the criteria for error analysis on learners` oral language The errors are classified in the following categories for the analysis (1) errors in the sentence level (2) errors beyond the sentence level This study suggests the criteria for error analysis are pronunciationpitch,..
The purpose of this study is to explore some contrastive rhetorical features based on analyzing texts written by KFL-learners and to suggest a model of L2 writing from the contrastive rhetorical perspective further Written texts of 120 advanced learners classified into 5 groups (Japanese, Chinese, Western, Russian, and South-East Asian) have been analysed and described ..