The purpose of this study is to provide students of Korean language for academic purpose with guidelines on academic writing in Korean, through needs analysis.
In chapter Ⅱ, as theoretical background of this study, I arranged the concept of writing,...
The purpose of this study is to provide students of Korean language for academic purpose with guidelines on academic writing in Korean, through needs analysis.
In chapter Ⅱ, as theoretical background of this study, I arranged the concept of writing, and the approach and principle of writing education in the context of education of writing in Korean as a foreign language. Based upon this, I explained kinds and characteristics of academic writing, and teaching methods and characteristics of academic writing following two approaches of writing education. Also two aspects of academic writing were cited.
In chapter Ⅲ, I presented the result of a survey on students of Korean for academic purpose to get guidelines on academic writing. In the survey, they said two factors made academic writing difficult; lack of knowledge in major and hardship of using diverse expression. They also had needs for extracting worthy study issues and a way of composing them logically. They referred to other treatises as a means of academic writing strategy. It means that they use other articles to comprehend the composition and process of one's own article while designing study way of one's own report and article. Also most of the respondents required a development of program for academic writing, which combines organically 'area of his or her major' and 'academic writing.'
I complemented the survey by interviewing graduate students for their need for article writing. The graduate students had more difficulty in academic aspect rather than Korean skill in their writing articles. They tended to set the topic of article in relation to their mother country or mother tongue to overcome the difficulties of their major. They wanted to receive help from fellow students in the same major through a feedback to their writing. They also wanted to be taught about diverse expression, vocabulary and writing on major. I also met with professors, who have experience of guiding articles of graduate students, to reflect their position as evaluators in education direction of academic writing, connected with making guideline on article writing.
In chapter Ⅳ, I suggested the following guidelines on academic writing, applying such a result of 'needs analysis.' First, we should differentiate class work and subject of academic writing according to the degree process. In undergraduate course, it should deal with various topics of liberal arts in class of writing, which is required in overall academic activities. However, in graduate course, writing class should focus on work of genre by genre and area of each major. Second, vocabulary education for various expression through use of similar words and synonyms is needed, which applies to both graduate and undergraduate students. Third, writing education strategy through two aspects of writing, summarizing and paraphrasing, is needed. Fourth, cooperative study with fellow students is effective to let them acquire communication skills of the academic community. Fifth, reading education is needed to let them use external information to their writing. Also I suggested actual guideline on education of writing articles applying the needs analysis.
In chapter Ⅴ, I summarized such a discussion and suggested a necessity for following studies, which will explore further class works needed for education of academic writing.