The purpose of this study is to suggest genre based teaching method for persuasive writing improvement skills for academic purpose Korean learner. With the recent increase of Korean learners, learner's purpose became various and the number of academi...
The purpose of this study is to suggest genre based teaching method for persuasive writing improvement skills for academic purpose Korean learner. With the recent increase of Korean learners, learner's purpose became various and the number of academic purpose learner also increased. Korean education changed variously in the ways of report writing, thesis writing for academic purpose learners, however, the expected objects were not been satisfied yet. Therefore, this study researches teaching method for independent thesis writing, the low rank genre of persuasive text, necessary for completement of academic purpose study. This study chose genre based writing teaching method for theoretical background because the genre based writing teaching method suggests teaching methods that supplement existing weakness of teaching methods.
Genre based teaching methods can decrease pressure of completing text by practicing with colleagues by joint negotiation, and help teachers to plan course work precisely by identifying exact expression and construction, and deliver the contents effectively to the learners.
This study is based on the needs that persuasive text writing education is not conduct in the real Korean teaching site in spite of the urgent need for the persuasive text in the complement of study. Additionally, the need was confirmed by the needs assessment for persuasive text writing in thesis writing. Based on the needs assessment, genre based teaching method is selected as a solution for improving expression for text complement.
In chapter 2, the definition, objective, and characteristics of genre based teaching method is suggested. Literature review on unclassified genre categories in Korean education is followed. This study suggests the classifications and organizations of low rank genre belongs to persuasive text, and seeks definition and characteristics of persuasive text, the high rank of thesis to find out the structural difference of persuasive text from thesis.
In chapter 3, text analysis is conducted with persuasive text chapter as the central figure for academic purpose learners. Text analysis is conducted concentrate upon the subject of structural characteristics, content development and language expression, and each text's characteristics, strength and weakness. Additionally an investigation searching for solution of weakness of each textbook based on genre based teaching method is conducted, and the result is reflected in chapter 4.
In chapter 4, contents that must be handled in persuasive text writing education method are suggested in order of context, persuasive text structure, language expression. The suggestions are more developed to text construction and independent construction included text identification in cooperation with modeling for learners. Therefore, this study is significant in suggesting ways to academic purpose learners of high quality persuasive text producing method.