태국문학 교육의 현황과 효과적 교수 방안의 가능태 : 영상매체 활용을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the present situation of Thai literary education in Korea and discuss the effective Thai literary educational methods by considering realistic and environmental limitations at this time. This paper will be discussed only formal literary education which means is the part of the regular school curriculum for students, specifically Thai literary education in the undergraduate courses, Hankuk university of foreign studies. Literary education is the educational act that teach and help learners to be able to read literary text more meaningful. However, there are two major problems to reach this goal in teaching-learning Thai literature. One is learners' incomplete communicative competence of Thai language and the other one is the difficulties of understanding and accepting Thai culture which is the background of literatures. Therefore, it may say that there are two challenges that Thai literary education is facing. First, it is to improve communicative competence of Thai language through the literary texts and to interpret and understand the implicit meaning of the literary texts at the same time. Second, it is to understand social and cultural background of Thailand that contained in the literary texts. Literature is the culture made in language, language is both a product and producer of culture, and culture encompass both of literature and language. So literary education should be the integrated education of language, culture and literature. For Thai literary education, learning basic knowledge about Thai literature by philological approach should be preceded, and teaching literature through using visual media may be the one of effective teaching method to develop the language and cultural competence through literature.