The learners are interested in the grammar with which they can make meaning and create a rich social life They want to learn grammar as a communicative resource not as an abstract rule The functional grammar puts together the patterns of the language and the things the learners can do with them This is based on the important correspondences between structure and function This..
The purpose of this study is to examine the types of grammatical patterns appeared in the Korean language textbooks and dictionaries and to grade them accordingly For this purpose, this study compiles the grammatical items and sort out those items based on lexical approach in order to measure their frequency and importance These grammatical items are used to provide the bas..
This study aims to select `a class of wish expression` and establish levels of them for the effective Korean Education To accomplish this job, I investigate the actual use of the native speakers through the Spoken Corpus and survey the aspect of the Korean learner`s Corpus Based on the result, I choose few expression - ʹ, -(Ҿ) ڴ, -(Ҿ) ϴ as for es..
This study focuses on how to research overseas Koreans` language use First, three areas for the research have been proposed, which are the attitude toward Korean, Koreans and Korea, Korean language proficiency and Korean language life of overseas Koreans This kind of research is concerned with L2 users or learners, so variabilities should be considered Overseas Koreans` ..
Japanese who are currently staying in Korea and learning Korean language are faced with the situation when they have to deal with appropriate use of honorifics, in communicating with Korean native speakers It seems to be significant for learners to use appropriate honorifics in Korean society First, in this study, the researcher grasps the learners` understandings of hono..
This study investigates greeting expressions in Korean language textbooks and suggests some teaching methods for them Greeting expressions are basic and indispensable parts in daily conversations among people They are also instrumental in understanding Korean language and culture The greeting expressions that are appeared in 9 Korean language textbooks can be classifie..
This paper examines the usage of the Korean conjunctive ending, `-` Both students and teachers encounter difficulties in learning the Korean conjunctive ending, `-,` because its form varies depending on the words it is joined with, while multiple relationships exist with preceding and escorting clauses When this `-` form is taught to beginners who are not yet ..
No teaching is possible without clearly defined learning goals The learning goal for a specific purpose language course can be called specific purpose language competence, which is by definition a partial and weighted proficiency The aim of this paper is to find out how this competence can be described We will show that although there exists some general purpose proficiency ..
The purpose of this study is to analyze and to evaluate the previous KFL(Korea as a foreign language) textbook for re-edition of a textbook and development of a new textbook For reliability and positiveness, (1) this study classifies the current of KFL textbook development in China And this study reviews the content and characteristic of typical KFL textbook in each perio..
The findings of the study with a focus on cultural themes can be summarized as follows 1 In terms of Korean language education programs and their overall curriculum, diverse recruitment methods and ranks of the programs have been identified as major themes An ideologically double-layered academic structure was also found in the process of implementing the curriculum, which..
The purpose of this paper is to suggest the group reading mode for integrative teaching and interaction among students in the classroom The characteristics of group reading are 1) the comprehension process of the texts which group members participate in together, 2) the scaffolding among group members, 3) interaction among students and skills integration while reading The ..
The aim of this paper is to examine the semantic and syntagmatic information of ``sa-i`` and ``dong-an`` based on corpus evidence The most important task for language learners is acquiring a sufficiently large number of vocabularies It is especially difficult to explain the subtle differences between usages of individual words Therefore it is useful to apply learner`s dict..
The purpose of this article is to introduce unknown Korean textbooks to the researchers of Korean education We have read IL-HAN-TONG-HWA, HAN-EO-GYO-JEONG and SHIN-AN-HAN-EO-GAN published between late 19th and early 20th century to teach foreigners Korean Language These books are Korean language textbooks for Japanese students were written by Japanese and K..
This paper aims to describe and analyze the errors produced by foreign learners of Korean language with its focus on several major Korean phonological rules such as tensification, reduction of consonant cluster in coda, resyllabification and so on The foreign learners as the subjects of the analysis are composed of 54 English native speakers, 36 Chinese and 35 Japanese nat..
This study examines the authenticity of overall speech speed of audio materials found in three Korean Listening textbooks Based on the analysis and the comparison of the overall speech speed in the conversation of native Korean speakers and that of the audio materials, it was observed that the average speech speed of the audio materials is slower than that of authentic conv..