漢字敎育 環境의 變化와 ‘읽기 위주’의 漢字敎育

Abstract

New contents of education are emerging one after another to equip students with various qualities required in future society. Apart from discussion on the necessity for Chinese character education and the development of logic, it is the time for recognizing the change in the environment of Chinese character education and, based on the recognition, looking for new education methods. Thus, the present study purposed to explore new Chinese character education methods particularly focused on the efficiency of Chinese characters and to suggest a 'reading‐oriented' Chinese character teaching method. Reading‐oriented Chinese character learning reflects Chinese character/writing classes relatively fewer than other curriculums and the overall work load assigned to individual students. Reading‐oriented Chinese character education is focused on the understanding of the meaning and pronunciation of Chinese characters and, furthermore, aims at enhancing vocabulary and abilities to use in the stage of learning Chinese words. Its goal is to know the meaning and pronunciation of presented Chinese characters without feeling the burden of writing. Accordingly, if learners understand and memorize the meaning and pronunciation of Chinese characters, they can easily reach the level of understanding the meaning of Chinese words made of Chinese characters and even enter the level of understanding sentences containing such words.