The number of foreign students for specific purposes in Korean language has increased steadily. In many studies mentioned, the development of a new textbook is necessary to reach the diversified purposes.
This study aims at helping construct a textbo...
The number of foreign students for specific purposes in Korean language has increased steadily. In many studies mentioned, the development of a new textbook is necessary to reach the diversified purposes.
This study aims at helping construct a textbook for Business Korean, it will be used by the Chinese students who were taking up the Korean language. Generally they have specific purposes to study Korean language, but don't have a suitable well-made textbook.
In this study we have used two ways to analyze the present conditions of Business Korean along with curriculum and textbooks. In curriculum analysis, we surveyed the curriculum in the universities of China. In the textbook analysis, we surveyed in textbooks which were published in Korea and China for the Chinese. In analyzing the textbooks for business purposes for the Chinese, they were divided into external structure and internal contents to see how well organized they are.
As a result of analysis, both external structure and internal contents have some weak points. In external structure, they are not very student centered, therefore they couldn't make full use for student it self. Many textbooks are just on array of the business language and there are many typographical errors and unnatural expressions. In internal contents, there are large occupation of external business, just small occupation of internal business. Sometimes, the old data about contents is shown . In the culture section, some contents include low relation with textbook and its chapter.
This study suggests a construction of Business Korean for the Chinese students, and content has to contain the next four standards. 1) for the intermediate grade learners in the fifth~eighth semester of university 2) communicative centered and four functions combined 3) one semester uses one book 4) contents divided internal business and external business
There are eleven items to consider when making a Business Korean textbook. 1) suggest clear and detailed study goals 2) organic construction and arrangement of characters 3) help understand the office life and practical business 4) a realistic text and real Korean language 5) suggest the best use of vocabulary, grammar, and sentence patterns 6) improvement of four functions with a variety of activities 7) suggest the various assessments including a self assessment 8) suggest the best uses of supplements 9) suitable language choices for explaining the contents 10) reflect the various cultures of Korea 11) suggest realistic materials like photos, pictures and illustrations
Based on the principles shown above, this study shows a syllabus and one chapter of Business Korean textbook as an example. It would be helpful to make a Business Korean textbook for further related studies.