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Empirical Analysis of Learning variables of Korean Eduation for multicultural families —Focus on Nationality, Identity of Korean, multiculturalism and contextualization

Yoo Gyeong-ae

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Published: January 2014 · Vol. 49, No. 3 · pp. 165-194

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20880/kler.2014.49.3.165

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Abstract

This study empirically analyzes the education of Korean language for multicultural families in Korea. The main results and findings are summarized as below. First, most multicultural learners of Korean language regard Korean language not as a foreign language but as a second language to understand Korean society and culture to live in Korea. Second, learning Korean has been helpful for multicultural families to develop the ability to use Korean language, to assimilate and understand Korean daily lives, Korean society and Korean culture in Korea. Third, as the results of statistical tests show, multicultural families have different learning objectives and motives, and demand for both Korean and their mother’s languages as teaching and texts languages in classes. Fourth, Contingency Table Analysis and ANOVA show that there are several different relations among the multicultural families’ learning variables of Korean.
Keywords: 한국어교육다문화가족학습 변인다문화주의다변량 분석