This paper aims to bring it to light the perspective of teaching method of korean terms of address people by comparing native Korean speakers and non-native Korean speakers' usage of address. For this purpose, questionnaires were designed to study how...
This paper aims to bring it to light the perspective of teaching method of korean terms of address people by comparing native Korean speakers and non-native Korean speakers' usage of address. For this purpose, questionnaires were designed to study how the two groups address respectively and it shows that it is necessary to teach non-native speakers of Korean terms of address.
The construction of this paper is as follows.
PartⅠ. explains the necessity and purpose of this research, and summarizes previous researches on address from the viewpoint of Korean language and Korean language teaching respectively.
Part Ⅱ. examines the concept of address, patterns of address and variability of addressing, on all of which this paper is grounded.
Part Ⅲ. explains test module, method of material analysis, pre-test and its results, together with test period, test method and introduction of examinees. In order to know the way of addressing people by the two groups, questionnaires were planned and SPSS statistic program was utilized and results were verified by χ² (Chi-Square). In the research, verification takes place when consideration standard P<.05. Studying objects selected to the program are composed of 100 native Korean speakers and 50 non-native speakers of Korean. Questions on the questionnaires take in consideration of relationship, sex, age, familarity, position that affect designation. The results drawn from the study are discussed.
Part Ⅳ. examines the plausibility of applying the research outcome that comes from this experiment to Korean language teaching. Research results can be analyzed by the choice of address. Firstly, they were divided by whether they knew each other or not, then how well they knew each other. It shows that when familarity is concerned, age is considered more than position, while no familarity is concerned, vice verse. Moreover, between unknown people, fixed ways of addressing is often used.
Part Ⅴ. Based on this result, I would propose three ways of teaching non-native speakers of Korean to address. First, according to different situation and listeners, it should be taught to non-native Korean speakers that what native Korean speakers consider and choose to address, so they will not feel it difficult to choose a form of address. Secondly, various different Korean forms of address should be taught to non-native speakers. As it can be learned from the questionnaire filled out by non-native speakers, they prefer a certain form of address. This only shows that they were not exposed to different situations when many other forms can be used. So we should teach non-native speakers as many forms as possible of address used by native Korean speakers to achieve better communications between native and non-native speakers. Thirdly, forms of address vary according to different situations. It should be brought to mind to the non-native speakers that even if talking to the same person, when situation changes, forms of address change accordingly.
Part Ⅵ. is a summary of this research. It is apparent that there are differences between native and non-native Korean speakers when they address people. When enlightening non-native Korean speakers of the differences, i.e. teaching them all the extant forms of address, factors that matter in addressing and variabilities by situation, it will surely help to improve their Korean.
For non-native Korean speakers, to master different forms of address is one of the difficult parts in learning Korean. Hopefully, this research will bring attention to Korean educators the importance of teaching address in their Korean classes, and if continual effort in the direction that this research lies in is put, it will contribute greatly to the communication between native and non-native Korean speakers.