초등학생의 국어생활 개선을 위한 기초 연구

Abstract

In elementary school children who can be called digital natives, their language use is characterized by the pursuit of economy in communication,frequent use of profanities, slang words and insults, and blurred boundary between spoken and written languages. As these phenomena bring confusions to the Korean language system and have negative impacts on emotional development, efforts should be made to improve elementary school children’s Korean language life. Thus, this study set the direction of educational research based on teachers’ perception of elementary school children’s Korean language life,and teachers’ perceptions found through the survey were as follows. First,children use negative expressions such as profanities, slang words and insults frequently. Second, it is necessary to improve children’s Korean language life. Third, there should be learning activities for right Korean language life. Fourth, there should be affective education related to right Korean language life. In order to set the direction of educational research based on teachers’perceptions as above, we reviewed existing problems and identified problems such as imbalance of research between written and spoken languages, imbalance among the subjects of research, and lack of discussion on specific improvement strategies. In order to solve these problems,research on the use of the Korean language should be conducted in different levels, and balanced research is required according to developmental stage. What is more, it is necessary to discuss improvement plans in terms of goals,contents and methods of education.