전기문의 장르 관습과 교육적 적용

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find genre conventions of biographical literature. If students understand the genre conventions of biographical literature, they can easily write biographies. Therefore, to identify the genre conventions of biographical literature is important in writing education. For doing this, check up the definition of biographical literature, and find the genre conventions of biographical literature. Until now we taught ‘reality, fictional, morality’ and ‘characters, events, background, comment’ as the properties of biographical literature in biography writing education. These are canonical, fixed, and decontextual. So they can not affect the cognitive processes of writing overall, and they are just rhetorical contexts that considered before processes of writing. In contrast, ‘genre conventions’ are useful when writing. Genre convention is expected experience of audience about a particular genre, and it is a trend or a common properties of the text within the same genre. Internal consistency with a genre that is, the genre conventions, makes the audience expect to, and audience feel familiar while a repeat of a similar type of experience. Therefore, depending on the genre conventions, students can easily write biographies. The text interior genre conventions of biographical literature are included ‘theme, title, point of view, constituent, narrative order, installation increasing reality, literary formation, independence of anecdote, indiscreet loan of anecdote, a literary style, quotation’ etc. The text exterior genre conventions of biographical literature are included ‘reality verification, media diversity, formality of series, formality of collection, value of target person, weakening writers, writer's major, text exterior intention in writing, considering readers’ etc. I examined whether genre conventions of biographical literature are reflected in the published text in the textbooks. The biographical literature text in the textbooks used in Elementary schools, Middle School, and High School is Generally typical. But the text in the High School textbooks represent variations. In addition, I discovered that students are not trained with genre conventions have the several problem with writing biographies. To overcome these difficulties, ‘understanding genre conventions’ are needed.