한국어 말하기 시험에서의 ‘이야기 口述 課題’ 연구

Abstract

The storytelling task is a communicative oral language activity in which the learner shares their thinking, feelings, and their emotions. This study outlines the meaningfulness of storytelling tasks and examines the results of carrying out storytelling ability tests. This article focuses on analysis of storytelling samples elicited from a Korean speaking test. After reviewing previous research on the subject, I discuss the necessity of creating new methods for testing speaking ability and propose using test methods‘structure’, ‘power of description’, ‘rhetorical expressions’, ‘coherence(grammatical accuracy)’ as constructs by which to evaluate and assess storytelling ability. In this study, the speaking test performances of 40 students were collected, and 12 samples were analyzed to evaluate the features of structure, description, rhetorical expressions and coherence. The content analysis found that Korean learners were good at grammatical accuracy, but they had difficulties in adding their emotional and judgemental reactions to their narratives and structures. My experiment yielded three results: First, test-takers storytelling abilities were lower compared to their overall Korean proficiency. Second, their ability to use conjecture, tense, and substitute expressions were relatively good, but their abilities to structure their stories, describing characters or situations, and using rhetorical expressions, were relatively low. Third, the rest takers couldn't express their own opinions or evaluations of the stories. Ultimately, this study demonstrates the importance of developing various storytelling tasks for intellectual and emotional storytelling education. Also, we should take an active interest in using the Korean style storytelling task to develop good storytellers.