PBL을 활용한 외국인 유학생을 위한 토론 수업 연구

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the speaking education programs using Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in the Korean language class as liberal art for foreign students in the universities, and to suggest the debate class programs using PBL for foreign students. PBL had been initially developed for the medical school classes and it is used in a variety of major classes as the teaching method. PBL is the teaching method to include ‘task,’ ‘experience,’ ‘cooperation,’ and so on, which the learner solves the tasks making the team with his or her own initiative if the teacher suggests the problem situation and the task with the concrete scenario. There were debate classes as the liberal art class in the university. However, the foreign students who were not fluent in Korean had the challenges to participate in the debate classes with the Korean students. Hence, the debate class was designed to suggest the task using PBL for the foreign students. This is the case study of the class using PBL in the Korean language class in the university. The class subject was ‘Korean conversation,’ and the subjects were the foreign students with class 3 or more in TOPIK. The debate class should enhance information collection skill, knowledge acquisition, cooperative learning skill, and so on beside the communication skill of the learners. To do so, the class using PBL was designed and applied in the debate class of ‘Korean conversation.’ In addition, the class model was developed using PBL to the existing debate class and designed the class contents, considering the level of learners and class time.