순천향대학교 글쓰기 교재 연구－ 개편 전후 비교를 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to understand recent trends in the field of writing textbooks by conducting a comparative analysis on a revised textbook of Soonchunhyang University that had lately revised a writing textbook and their pre-revised textbook. In order to analyze the textbooks, the study used an evaluation reference that has been basically divided into forms, systems and contents. In conclusion, as regarding how the pre-revised textbook 『Theories and Reality of Writing』 lacks reading materials and these contents about academic writing, which has been always pointed out as the biggest problem, as what has to be revised, the study confirmed that in terms of a new textbook titled 『Thinking and Expression』, it is described with this difference that the textbook deals with a variety of reading materials and contents about academic writing. Other than that, it will be learned that the revised textbook has made these original challenges such as applying practice problems, including a supplement to teach self-initiated writing and others. In addition, as for how a class has focused only on writing and speaking, the study found out that in a process of textbook revision, speaking, in other words, ‘presentation and discussion’, has been additionally added to the class. When it comes to the most noticeable change revealed through the textbook analysis, the new textbook offers learners chances to try writing for themselves regardless of instructors’ qualifications. How the revised textbook would encourage learners to acquire one by one as they go through with every step of writing is considered to be a type which has combined the form of the main textbook with the other of the workbook, and it is a result which had reflected the latest trend. Despite several discussions that have been positively developed, there were a few considerations to be made and first of all, examples that do not correspond to levels of learners have been selected and second of all, ethics of writing are being handled only in an one-dimensional way and third of all, ‘presentation and discussion’ is not closely related to previous activities.