청산별곡과 국어교과학

Abstract

There are scholars of Korean language or literature who regards themselves primarily as linguistics or literary studies whose teaching merely takes place, as it were, in a Korean class. In debates at the academic level, scholars all too often seem more motivated by protecting their narrow disciplinary interests than by promoting the study of teaching Korean as a subjectology. What consequently makes a language subject such as Korean distinctive is precisely its combined systematic, behavioral, cultural, thinking, communicational, and literary perspectives. If the cultivation of these disciplines is to progress further within the teaching of Korean, however, more scholars must commit themselves to performative research. Such cultivation would also make headway if new or vacant positions and research fellowships were to be advertised with an emphasis on the desirability of an performative orientation. As research in these disciplines becomes enriched and their boundaries expanded, new insights are engendered for the study of Korean as a teaching subject.