影响韩中跨文化交际的文化因素的调查分析 ―以中国初中教科书『思想品德』为例

Abstract

As international exchanges grow day after day, it has become even more important to understand the cultures of other countries and cultivate the ability of cultural communication as well as simple language skill development in Second Foreign Language Education. Language and culture are in inseparable relations in cultural exchanges with language being a part of culture and the carrier of culture. Since both Korea and China belong to the Oriental culture zone, they share many common cultural features. There are, however, differences between them at the same time. Those cultural differences lead to many cases of “vocabulary deficiency” and “semantic conflict” between Chinese and Korean. When people of different cultural backgrounds engage in communication, smooth communication will be impossible without cultural background knowledge. This study thus focused on “effects of cultural background knowledge in communication” as its topic. The present study collected total five volumes of “Thoughts and Characters,” a standard textbook used in the Chinese compulsory education curriculum for middle school students, which are the seventh grade to the ninth grade. It analyzed about cultural background knowledge. For analyzing cultural elements influencing communication between Korean and Chinese people on text book, the investigatorclassified and analyzed in details the phenomena of “vocabulary deficiency” and “semantic conflict,” which occur due to differences between their cultural elements, and examined problems happening in the process of language acquisition and education due to cultural differences. Finally, directions were proposed to improve those problems so that they could be applied to Chinese education. This study would help Korean students learning Chinese understand the Chinese language better and solve obstacles to their learning, thus they can understand rightly cultural elements influencing communication.