韓⋅日 漢字語 比較 硏究 - 日本 小學校 國語 敎科書 中心으로 -

Abstract

This study consists of one chapter to look into the actual conditions and situations of Japan’s Chinese character education in order to compare Chinese character education of Korean-Japanese elementary schools. Even though Korea and Japan’s Chinese character education systems are different, examining how Chinese character education is performed by analyzing Chinese characters in Japanese primary school’s language textbooks seems to contribute to the development of Chinese character education of Korean elementary schools. Therefore, this study looked into the history and the creation of Korea and Japan’s Chinese characters, and divided Chinese characters in Japanese primary school’s language textbooks into types, meanings, and phonemes to examine the differences. In addition, it aimed divide the reasons why Chinese characters are different from Korea into linguistic factors, social factors, and cultural factors in order to examine them in detail. Currently, Chinese characters are frequently used among Korean and Japanese vocabularies. Chinese character education in Japanese primary school’s language textbooks is more systematic and more frequently used than Korea. Despite different education policies of the two countries, Chinese words and Chinese characters play an important in linguistic life of both countries. However, Korean primary school’s Chinese character education is still insufficient. Chinese words and Chinese characters can be an important tool. Although languages are different in Chinese character cultures, language unity can be formed through Chinese characters to lay the foundation for the development of and exchange among nations. Therefore, it is important to examine the actual conditions of Chinese character education in countries with Chinese character cultures. To this end, this study is conducted to look into actual situations of Japan’s Chinese character education by comparing Chinese words in Japanese primary school’s language textbooks.