한국어교원의 역량강화를 위한 재교육방안 연구– 한국어(KSL) 교육 과정을 중심으로 –

Abstract

In order to improve the learning ability of multicultural learners, Korean language education that could improve their Korean language ability as a learning tool should come first. Instead of using bilingual instructors, they should be educated by Korean language teachers equipped with expertise. The communication and understanding of learners should be separated from Korean language education, by recruiting specialists like multicultural counselor or multicultural language instructor. To be differentiated from bilingual instructors and multicultural language instructors, Korean language teachers' expertise should be more secured to expand their roles. Therefore, this paper reviewed Korean language teachers' roles and work required by educational institutes to increase their expertise, understood their preparation, and then summarized the retraining contents for them based on it. In the results of the analysis, Korean language teachers were lacking in understanding of the characteristics of multicultural learners. Also, the retraining contents most preferred included the curriculum and educational contents of KSL of elementary/middle/high school for multicultural learners, and the understanding and methods of learning Korean language. Based on it, as retraining contents of KSL, the detailed contents were suggested like ‘understanding of learners in elementary/middle/high school’, ‘understanding of KSL education’, ‘teaching ability in KSL education’, and ‘school job ability'.