학문목적 학습자를 대상으로 한 확장형 읽기 교육의 효과

Abstract

As there has been a growing number of learners with academic purposes among Korean learners, there has been a lot of learners with difficulties in understanding the lessons of their majoring subjects accordingly. The cause of the difficulties is their familiarity with intensive reading in Korean reading class. Intensive reading requires accurate reading and understanding of a relatively short text is a good way to develop accuracy in reading. However it is not appropriate for reading a lot of reading materials concerning with their major and grasp the main points. therefore it is necessary 2 practicing extensive reading to read and understand the materials in Korean rapidly. Even though it has not been long that the extensive reading which has been widely used English education starts to be applied to Korean education, it is clear that extensive reading is helpful in Korean education as well. Thus, this study aims at finding out an appropriate way for Korean classroom through an experiment for a while and represents the effect. The experiment was done for 15 weeks with 31 learners and in class the practice and presentation on extensive reading and after class the learners chose a piece of reading material freely and write a log on a weekly basis. The researcher of this study explained the way and purpose of extensive reading throughly and let the learners practice without any help with a dictionary. Prior test to the experiment, the 8th week’s mid test and post test of the experiment were done to find out the improvement of the learners’ reading proficiency. A meaningful result came out from the T-test on both the prior test and post test. Especially the effect of education on the low performing learners was big and the effect on general understanding which is the main target of extensive reading was meaningful enough. With the result extensive reading is effective on improving reading ability for the low performing learners rather than the high performing learners, and proves that it is effective on general understanding rather than understanding minor things in detail. In addition, the survey represents that the emotional attitude toward extensive reading is very positive as well. This study proposes extensive reading as a way to improve reading ability of the Korean learners in the hope of active researches on the methods to apply the extensive reading to the Korean classroom in the future.