The purpose of the study is to verify the effects of reading activity which is students centered education method for teaching text-structure and markers from teaching Korean academic writing on the students’ text’s cohesion and coherence for the ...
The purpose of the study is to verify the effects of reading activity which is students centered education method for teaching text-structure and markers from teaching Korean academic writing on the students’ text’s cohesion and coherence for the Korean learners for academic purpose.
The subjects were 24 Chinese students, who attended Korean intermediate class at K universities’ international education institute in Kyonggi-do, and they were taught about Korean text through the integrative teaching of reading and writing for five weeks. Their composition texts were assessed by two Korean lecturers and analyzed with two-independent samples t test.
The findings were as follows:
Firstly, the experimental group’s texts, who study Korean text structure, markers, and the contents with reading activities, were received higher points than the control group in the contents coherence evaluation. Assessing categories on the contents coherence were the text contents’ consistency and intention and the text contents’ identity and completion. As the result of assessing, the experimental group’s average score were at least 1 point higher than the control group in four kinds of expository text-structures such as enumeration, contrast and comparison, cause and effect, problem and solving texts, and it was also statistically significant at the p<.05 level.
Second, the experimental group’s texts, who study Korean text structure, markers, and the contents with reading activities, were received higher points than the control group in the structural cohesion evaluation. Assessing categories on the structural cohesion were writing a text in the three stages, using the appropriate text structure according to its subject, and the appropriate markers according to its text structure. As the result of assessing, the experimental group’s average score were at least 1 point higher than the control group in four kinds of expository text-structures such as enumeration, contrast and comparison, cause and effect, problem and solving texts, and it was also statistically significant at the p<.05 level.
Thirdly, to verify whether the assessing result of students’ text has difference in the four kinds of text structure one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used, and as the result of ANOVA, there were no statistically significant. Although the experimental group size was only twelve, it was verified that the text-structure did not have effect on the students’ text in this study.
This study verified that the active reading activity had affirmative effects on the cohesion and coherence of students’ composition texts because the learners could study text-structure and marker. It also verified the role of reading script and the importance of reading activity because it showed that reading activity had effects on not only structural cohesion but contents coherence such as producing ideas and expressing with appropriate ways. Those results would have a meaning for the integrative teaching of reading and writing and the base material for Korean text education.