한국에서의 일본어 작문 연구와 교육의 현황

Abstract

This study analyzes the current status of research and education on Japanese writing in Korea. The major findings are as follows: (1) Among 124 papers on Japanese writing in academic journals, a large proportion of these papers are on language acquisition and usage (61.2%). (2) In Japanese related majors in Korean graduate schools, the number of master’s degree (23) and doctor’s degree (1) theses on writing is at a total of 24. Among these, a large proportion are on error and acquisition (42.9%). (3) Composition of subjects (849) in Japanese related majors (71) among Korean universities (66) in terms of four skills of Japanese show that speaking is 29.7%, reading 16.4%, listening 14.4% and writing 10.6% in which the proportion of writing is the lowest. (4) Regardless of the level of the learners, they lack writing skills and find it most difficult to learn writing amongst the four skills of Japanese. The main reason is due to the ‘lack of Chinese character (writing) abilities’. Writing classes were mainly on ‘writing short sentences using vocabulary or easy grammar terms’. Also, JLPT N1 level learners think they need more classes on ‘writing practical documents (business documents)’, whereas N2 and N3 level learners on ‘translation of short sentence (including error-prone terms) in Korean’. (5) During 1972 to 2015, 86 textbooks on Japanese writing were published in Korea in which elementary level made up 51.2%, intermediate level 39.% and advanced level 9.3%.