일본어과 내용중심 교수학습에의 접근

Abstract

How to teach culture in language classes? What to teach for culture? These have been ceaseless concerns of teachers since the 7th Educational Curriculum. The 2015 Revised Educational Curriculum, which will apply from 2018, requires that students’ choices and needs be procured and student-centered collaboration learning be emphasized as well as teaching both language functions and culture through multimedia. This study investigates the change and improvement from communication-centered teaching to content-based teaching in foreign language teaching methods, and from input-based learning to output-based learning in language acquisition principles. The future class should provide more opportunities for output rather than input and focus on learner-centered practices such as presentation, discussion, collaboration, and group activities. The researcher argues that communicative competence should be improved through learning content naturally. Therefore, the primary concern of class should be what the ‘contents’ are. Content-based learning and teaching focuses on the student as the agent of learning. This method starts from deciding on contents in which language should be utilized and proceeds to acquiring language components such as sentence structures, grammar, and vocabulary for the purpose of studying the contents. For this, the researcher introduced content-based materials which combined the four language skills and presented applicable teaching plans. The 35 contents, which comprise of ‘pop culture’ and ‘daily-based culture’, will be useful in class in a variety of ways. In school education, ‘approaching content-based learning and teaching’ enables learners to improve thinking skills and enrich experience through ‘thinking’ and ‘expressing’ class. This will make the future-oriented class possible, where students will learn how to think critically, communicate effectively, cooperate closely, and ultimately become creative.