This research focuses on how the social factors in honorific expressions are being taught in Korean textbook. Also, the research suggests the methods to improve the textbooks, based on the result of the analysis.
The study on Korean honorific express...
This research focuses on how the social factors in honorific expressions are being taught in Korean textbook. Also, the research suggests the methods to improve the textbooks, based on the result of the analysis.
The study on Korean honorific expressions should be taught based on grammatical knowledge and sociolinguistic knowledge. This is because Korean honorific expression requires not only the structural?syntactic approach but also sociolinguistic perspective. Social linguistics perspective is an aspect which includes non-linguistic sociological factors, such as friendliness, age, gender, class and etc. in its view.
Unfortunately, such social factors related to the honorific expression has not received much attention compared to the structural?syntactic factors. From the elementary textbooks, the honorific expression is emphasized as a structural form of grammar. Due to such education, the learners tend to consider structural?syntactic accuracy as the priority when studying a language. Also, the learners are not interested about the social factors regarding a foreign language. The learners who did not receive enough education about the importance of social factors regarding Korean honorific expression tend to naturally use their own linguistic instinct on using Korean honorific expression, thereby making mistakes on using the Korean language.
In order to prevent such mistakes, the discussion on education of adequate information on the importance of social factors in using the Korean honorific expression is needed. Hence, this research focuses on whether the Korean textbooks, which has importance for the fact that it has a great influence on learners with its both qualitative and quantitative contents, have enough materials regarding the social factors which influence Korean honorific expression. Also, it is a purpose of the research to find ways to improve the Korean textbooks, based on the analysis on textbooks.
The content of the current treatise is summarized in the following.
In the first chapter, the detailed purpose and subjects of research are mentioned. Also, the treatise discusses about the previous research by others on the condition of honorific expression within textbooks.
In the second chapter, the treatise discusses the importance in education of Korean honorific expression based on the sociolinguistic knowledge, which is the fundamental background of this research. In addition, chapter two also discusses social factors related to the Korean honorific expression. Based on such discussions, some standards were set to analyze the current condition of the honorific expression within textbooks.
The third chapter includes the result of the analysis, which was made in the previous chapter. Activities motivated by textbooks for studying the honorific expression, appearance of honorific expressions within conversations in textbooks, and description of various techniques in using honorific expression were set as the target elements for the analysis.
In the fourth chapter, based on the result of analysis from chapter three, the treatise suggests methods to improve the education of honorific expression within textbooks. These methods are divided into areas of description techniques, conversations, and activities.