한자검정시험 문제 유형 분석 및 提言

Abstract

This article aims to classify the questions set by a Chinese characters certificate examination institute by type, analyze their respective features and also give opinions on a question type so that the opinions may be referred to when an elementary school, junior·senior high school and various Chinese characters·Chinese writing educational institute set Chinese characters test questions. To do that, the review was conducted on the questions of Korea Institute of Korean language and writing(韓國語文會), Korea Institute of Hanja Level Qualification Evaluation(漢字敎育振興會), Korea Institute of Chinese characters·Chinese writing ability (韓國漢字漢文能力開發院), Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry(大韓商工會議所) among Chinese characters certificate examination institutes that were acknowledged by the nation. These respective institutes set various classes of questions, and I mainly reviewed questions belonging to the most high-ranking ones. This study divided the questions already set by the above-mentioned institutes into a large sphere of Chinese characters and Words written in Chinese characters and a detailed sphere centering around a type, a sound and a meaning, and examined each feature illustrating questions falling into each sphere. Also, opinions on merits/demerits of subjective and objective questions, and their compatibility with the goal of a Chinese characters certificate examination, etc. were given. This study could be utilized from the aspect of question construction when a Chinese characters test is given and also used reference materials for developing new types of questions. In addition, even candidates in Chinese characters tests could learn effectively Chinese characters through analysis of question types.