허사 학습을 통한 한문 독해 수업 사례 연구 - 중학교 1학년을 대상으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to prepare for the foundation to resolve the problem with Chinese reading classes at local schools. The 7th grade is when students first start to learn Chinese in the regular school curriculum. Learning sounds and meanings of Chinese characters is already beyond the capacities of these students, and this study analyzed their problem with comprehension of written Chinese to try to suggest a solution to the problem. First, it analyzed units of short sentences and essays relevant to Chinese reading comprehension in the 2015 revised middle school Chinese textbooks. Then, reference data were created by entering Chinese characters information helpful in deciphering sentences in textbooks. After these processes, the learning material was created by selecting empty morphemes-related data and applied to the classes. It was because the interpretation of empty morphemes was assumed to be an important element of Chinese reading comprehension. Understanding of empty morphemes concept using this learning material was added to the existing classes using textbooks. Formative evaluations, surveys, interviews, etc. confirmed that the learning of empty morphemes could contribute to some extent to a change in the students' perception of Chinese classes, while it didn't improve students' Chinese reading comprehension skill in a short period of time. In this sense, the basic knowledge lessons for reading like Chinese grammar rules should not be cramming and memorization oriented.