문화 리터러시 함양을 위한 외국인 학부생들의 사회 참여적 글쓰기 수업 연구

Abstract

Cultural literacy is capability to investigate cultural phenomenon of target language society, analyze the phenomenon critically and communicate. The cultural literacy capability is required for students who are learning Korean as a foreign learner, because the learners of Korean language cannot learn the language completely unless they understand the Korean culture as a basis. Furthermore, the ideology and the accumulated experience of Koreans are soaked into Korean language, and most of use of Korean language takes place within the Korean culture. Therefore, cultural literacy teaching is certainly necessary because it is a basis of unhindered communication with Korean speakers and enjoying Korean culture for foreign learners by correctly recognizing the Korean culture. By paying attention to these, this paper studied teaching of cultural literacy for foreign college students. As a teaching method to enhance cultural literacy, a model class on social engagement writing by using public advertisement was designed, and an example class was suggested and analyzed. The model class on social engagement writing suggested in this paper was designed as three-step process of recognition, judgment and production. In each process, a practical approach was emphasized to enable students to read and produce the culture in question through a series of activities such as ‘writing a title’, ‘writing an assertive essay’, and ‘replacement writing’. The material used for this class activity was public advertisements. Public advertisements include topical subjects in Korean society and culture, and the current cultural stream and communication aspect are reflected the way the advertisements deal with the subject in producing them. The advertisements themselves especially function socioculturally by reflecting and creating consciousness, value and ideology of the society. Therefore, they are valuable resources as class materials for cultural literacy. However, the chain of evolution of thinking experienced by the learner during exposure to the culture of target language society is an action taken internally to the learners. In teaching, it is necessary to visualize and check the evolution of thinking, and writing activity is a useful tool to emphasize it. The writing activity itself is a process of making up knowledge, and also the result of the process to colligate and elaborate the learner’s thoughts. Actually, from the writings of the students, the result of analysis on the class example confirmed the process of gradual recognition and active judgment of the culture in question by students and production of new information by themselves. In conclusion, the significance of this paper is a design of a model class to enhance cultural literacy, and suggestion and analysis of an example class.