속담을 활용한 한국어 고급반 수업 구성 방안

Abstract

Proverbs are mostly short, but valuable heritages which contain deep meanings, histories, cultures, views of values, etc. Hence, if proverbs are adopted in advanced Korean language learning, it will help the learners improve their Korean language skills and greatly help them become familiar with Korean culture, history, and ways of thinking. Therefore, teaching methods should be required to help Korean language education institutions utilize proverbs more so that students can understand Korean culture and history in various views. In this context, the method of teaching proverbs in an advanced Korean class was analyzed. This study looked into how proverbs are used in a few textbooks which are used by colleges in Korea, finding that the units were composed mainly of proverbs and that a few proverbs were presented among other sentences. The common thing in these two methods was that class lessons do not highlight proverbs well through their values and meaning of the proverbs and also through the proverbs. The objective of the class lessons was simply to help students practice and understand the proverbs. Thus, teaching of the proverbs in an advanced Korean class should be transformed so as to help students not only interpret the meaning of proverbs but also utilize proverbs and understand Korean culture and views of values. As a result, this study suggests that an advanced Korean class should use proverbs at various learning stages and also with various methods beyond the simple understanding of them. This study also proposes to use seven stages such as (1) warm-up, (2) presentation, (3) explanation, (4) practice, (5) utilization, (6) deepening and (7) follow-up in the classes. This method will help students not only understand Korean proverbs but also compare them with proverbs in their own language, thereby understanding differences between Korean proverbs and those in their own language and also characteristics of proverbs in Korean language and their own language. This will help students cultivate critical views and thinking abilities. As a practical example of this, this study looked into a method of organizing an advanced Korean class of teaching proverbs by using a proverb: 평안감사도 제 싫으면 그만 (You can reject the position offer for the mayor of a city, if you don’t like it)