中國에서의 字源을 활용한 漢字 교육 방법

Abstract

This paper aims to look into the present situation of a Chinese character education method utilizing letter source(字源) in China, and find a device to apply the method to Chinese character education in Korea through its evaluation. In a study of Chinese character science in the traditional age, the concept of letter source(字源) was understood as ‘independent-style letter capable of generating a new Chinese character as original source of a Chinese character’. But, from the standpoint of modern Chinese character science, it was reestablished as ‘a principle of making a Chinese character understandable from the most primitive form of a Chinese character". In china, a Chinese character education method is being used in a textbook and various reference books, also Zilishizifa(字理識字法), a learning method based on Chinese character letter source, is proposed and being utilized. Given the present situation of a Chinese character education that utilized such Chinese letter source, it is found that this method is a very useful Chinese character learning method. In my opinion, Chinese character education based on exact interpretation of letter source of a Chinese character is a very important method. But, a teacher is required to flexibly solve inefficient aspects which may occur when emphasis was placed only on this education. Also, it would be desirable the method of utilizing letter source is limited to the case where a student learns a Chinese character with distinct hieroglyphic nature also.