일본어 교육에서 문화와 언어의 통합 형태에 관한 탐구 -일본의 연구 고찰과 설문조사를 중심으로-

Abstract

This study aims to identify the efficient way to integrate language and culture in Japaneseclass for Korean college students. For this purpose, based on socio-cultural theory of Vygotsky,two opposite types were introduced as a way of integrating language and culture: “the internalintegration” and “the external integration”. This study focused on the former between twotypes of integration; therefore, in terms of internal integration, this study found that therewere limitations when learning target language in the target culture, through the review onJapanese studies. In addition, this study contains the result of a questionnaire answered by 57 Japaneselanguage instructors from 22 countries, in 2012. They were asked about the culture gap theyfelt while talking with Japanese people, including its cause and specific examples. With the analysis of above results, the key conclusions this study arrived at are as follows:First, Japanese culture, or the target culture in language teaching, can be presented to languagelearners with a type the target culture has. Second, this presentation is more useful in the classroom where the teacher and the students share common mother language and culture,rather than in Japan where the native speaker teacher teaches the students from differentcountries.