문화유산을 활용한 한국어 문화교육 방안 연구 - 고급 학습자를 중심으로

Abstract

The importance of cultural education in Korean language education has long been emphasized, because the language of a country is closely bound up with learning about the culture of the nation. Indeed, cultural education is of great importance for learning a foreign language, and the necessity of education that focuses on fostering an ability to interpret the customs of the discourse community rather than offering fragmental knowledge of culture should be stressed. In fact, however, current cultural education for teaching Korean has just been conducted as what's additionally needed for language education, though the importance of cultural education is recognized. Cultural education is included in the curriculums of educational institutions that teach the Korean language, but this education is provided just fragmentarily as part of the language curriculum. Cultural education cannot be successful if it is offered fragmentarily without considering actual contexts. Therefore it should be avoided to present cultural information only as supplementary materials or without being properly connected to what's taught in class. Instead, it's advisable to teach learners to infer naturally about the given contexts by presenting practical materials. To make it happen, the kind of educational method that provides a variety of contents for learners to experience, apply and analyze in person is required. In recent years, the number of learners who learn Korean is on the rise, and their motivation, learning goal and needs are diversified. Besides, they have a strong cultural achievement motivation in accordance with their learning goal and needs. The example is learners who major in the Korean language, Korean studies, Korean culture, Korean history and Korean economy. Accordingly, cultural education for teaching Korean should be conducted in a systematic and diverse way in consideration of the goal and level of learners. In this study, problems with cultural education for teaching Korean are pointed out. Cultural education mostly centers around daily linguistic culture, and this education is not diverse enough to satisfy the needs of advanced learners. Korean culture is presented just briefly or as supplementary materials that aren't properly linked to what's taught in class. Therefore how to provide cultural education for teaching Korean by taking advantage of cultural heritage was explored in this study. Cultural heritage is one of educational items to improve the Korean cultural competency of advanced learners. That represents national culture, history and identity and is an educational material which shows the unique features of the nation and can gain empathy as universal value of mankind at the same time. Specifically, the cultural contents industry is lately very dynamic along with growing concern for cultural heritage, and cultural education that utilizes cultural heritage seems to be of great use. The purpose of this study was to examine textbooks, cases of cultural experience and contents used in cultural education for teaching Korean in an effort to determine the state of the utilization of cultural heritage in Korean language education. And it's also meant to shed light on the educational value of cultural heritage and to seek ways of taking advantage of it in cultural education for teaching Korean. Cultural education for teaching Korean that uses cultural heritage is expected to make a contribution to the improvement of the Korean proficiency of advanced learners by increasing their understanding of Korean society and culture, and that also is expected to exercise a positive influence on the diversification of cultural education for teaching Korean in terms of level and content and on the improvement of practical teaching.