Current Issues in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
JEONGSOON CHOE
배재대학교
Korea Business Review 45No. pp.25-48 (2012)
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to indicate problems after understanding the current situation of Korean education in Korea and makes an alternative proposal. First, it verifies the rapid growth of Korean education in a short period of time by presenting figures for developing process and increasing of the number of Korean learners. And it presents some limitations for granting teaching certificate and management system which play central roles in Korean education. It checks approximately the points to be considered and alternatives for overall Korean education - focusing on related issues of learners and instructors with a question whether the quality has been improved as much as quantity. Korean education’s development is closely related to the rise of Korean learners in the end. Therefore measures for increasing the number of Korean learners is proposed, particularly associating with international students who study intensively for a certain period of time. For the development of Korean education and intensification of teacher’s professionalism,it suggests complementing curriculums and strengthening certification criteria as much as the fundamentals of Korean Act demand,specifically arguing the need for differentiation of course names and depth of contents between undergraduate and graduate schools.As for the teaching certificate, it suggests to reduce or abolish to grant to the Master degree graduates for the lack of hours of lessons and courses. It suggests also adding more courses to develop the teachers’quality and knowledge. Finally, it proposes current active teachers to have further education and indicates the problem of exam-oriented Korean lessons. In order to have Korean learning classes work more properly, the institutions should be more self-governing being away from Government’s interventions.
Keywords
한국어교육한국어 교원교육과정한국어교육 현황자격제도
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