This study is aimed at the more effective and systematic Korean education through the comparison of Korean proverbs to Japanese one, especially for Japanese students, who learn Korean as a foreign language. It is reflected that the way of thinking, cu...
This study is aimed at the more effective and systematic Korean education through the comparison of Korean proverbs to Japanese one, especially for Japanese students, who learn Korean as a foreign language. It is reflected that the way of thinking, cultures, ideologies of a nation. Proverbs reflect the culture, ideology, and ways of thinking of a nation. The two countries, particularly South Korea and Japan, are geographically adjacent, and that the both cultures are partly based on the Sinosphere, which makes the society, politics, culture and various fields closely correlated, for that reason many of similarities can be found in the proverbs of two countries.
A comparative study of proverbs in Korea and the Japan for Korean language education in this paper was carried out as follows.
In the first chapter, the objectives of study and method of inquiry was proposed, and precedent studies on the proverbs; referred to the teaching proverbs to the KSL/KFL learner, the Korean culture education, and the comparison between Korean saying and foreign one.
In the second, it was examined that the meanings and characteristics of proverbs from the both countries, defined by dictionaries and researchers.
In the third, to analyze the proverbs, the proverbs presented in the materials made by the domestic Korean language teaching institutes, the saying from the sample questions of the TOPIK test, and the one included in the Korean-Japanese similar proverb dictionary『日韓類似ことわざ辞典』were reviewed.
In the chapter 4, based on the sample questions of the TOPIK test and the materials made by the domestic Korean language teaching institutes, Korean and Japanese proverbs were assorted, according to the materials (animal, human, food), subject (language, life, family, social, intelligent, reasonable, behavior, mental). After that the characteristics and usage of the each proverb are analyzed comparatively focusing on the similarities and differences.
In the chapter 5, effective methods for teaching Korean proverbs to Japanese learners were suggested, divided into intermediate and advanced levels.
Finally, the conclusions of this study presented in Chapter 6. As mentioned earlier, the most noteworthy thing about this paper is that the proverbs from the materials made by the domestic Korean language teaching institutes and the list of the saying by the duplicate rankings, which is focused on the proverbs from the sample questions of the TOPIK test, from the first to 18th. Based on that, each of the proverbs is compared according to the materials (animal, human, food), subject (language, life, family, social, intelligent, reasonable, behavior, mental).
Besides this study can be the meaningful resources to the Japanese, Korean language learners by providing an effective method to teaching proverbs for the Japanese, the interests in Korean saying and an opportunity to feel the Korean proverb easy. However, it remains with inconvenience that this paper couldn't select the proverbial list for the Japanese, Korean language learners, and that the plans couldn't have practiced in the field of education. It is expected that following researches supplementing the those shortcomings are continuously to be made.