The current crop of students, who are living in an era of multimedia and multichannels, are positive prosumers of language media; they write using various media, take pictures, and produce video. If students who are familiar with language media are ag...
The current crop of students, who are living in an era of multimedia and multichannels, are positive prosumers of language media; they write using various media, take pictures, and produce video. If students who are familiar with language media are aggressively accepted, their Korean language use ability can be improved, their communication skills can be expanded, and they can come to understand various cultures. In addition, they can imbibe the spirit of the language and can become more critical and creative language media users. Therefore, now is the time to carry out language media education by positively utilizing language media so that students can utilize them more critically and creatively. Towards this end, the researcher described, interpreted, looked for the meaning of, and observed the emotional changes in the creation and acceptance aspects of language media.
The issues of this study were set as follows:
(1)How can education/learning methods for the creation and acceptance of language media be devised, and what procedure should be applied for such?
(2)Will this program produce a positive impact on the students’ attitudes towards language media?
(3)What methods can be employed for the analysis of the creation and acceptance aspects of language media?
The concepts of “media” and “media education” as discussed in the existing academic fields, as well as the scope and characteristics of media, were described in Chapter II. Further, media education in the current Korean language education program was discussed as reflected in the media-related contents of the Korean language education course.
The application of the language media production program in two general human science classes composed of boys and girls in a high school located in Gyeonggi province was described in detail in Chapter III. In addition, the different aspects of the creation and acceptance of language media by the students were described and interpreted. For this purpose, the researcher used the observation records and interview transcripts of a number of students in the process of teaching and learning, the minutes of the meetings in each class session, MP3 recordings, and camcorder-recorded video images. To find out how the activities from which these materials were obtained affected the students, the researcher randomly selected two classes to be the comparison groups and measured the changes in the students’ attitudes towards language media. Finally, the efficiency of the process of effecting such changes was verified through the evaluation of the language media production programs being implemented in the subject schools and the investigation of the students’ reactions to such programs.
In Chapter IV, the contents of the arts works that the students produced in relation to the teaching and learning of the creation and acceptance of language media were analyzed and described. Further, the results of the observation of the students’ attitudes towards language media were presented and interpreted after verifying these through a T-test. Finally, in Chapter V, the conclusion of this study and the recommendations of the researcher based on the study’s findings were presented.
The conclusions of this study, in which the changes in the students’ attitudes towards language media were measured by analyzing and describing their creation and acceptance of language media through language media production programs, are as follows:
(1)The students could accurately recognize, analyze, and evaluate, from a critical viewpoint, the essence of language media for the same object represented differently according to the viewpoints of media producers.
(2)The students showed an ability to search for the information that they want from various media. They also demonstrated the ability to re-compose and assemble all the information they need. Moreover, the students showed the ability to skillfully utilize various media in the process of creating language media, including creative and symbolic expression using various media elements.
(3)The students participated well in the class activities, manifesting a mutually cooperative and complimentary attitude in the processes of language media production. The activities in each class session promoted mutual interaction, and background knowledge regarding language media was creatively produced, which directly affected the students’ language media production.
(4)Positive changes in the students’ attitudes towards language media were revealed in the analysis. It was observed that the language media production programs changed the attitudes of the students positively. In addition, such programs were found to be more effective for male students than for female students as well as in the middle and lower groups, who have shorter attention spans and lesser interest in language media.
(5)As for the results of the evaluation of the objects of the experiences related to language media production programs, majority of them positively reacted to the appropriateness of the programs as well as to their effects.
(6)As for the results of the investigation of the subjective reactions of the students to the aforementioned programs, it was observed that the programs made the students more analytical, enabled them to critically analyze language media, and affected them positively when they applied in their daily lives what they had learned from such programs. It was also observed that the programs could increase the capability of the students to enjoy language media and to utilize them more positively and subjectively, and that they could even affect career recognition, going beyond simply changing the learners’ attitudes.
Based on the foregoing, it was adjudged that the aforementioned programs could enhance the ability of the students, who utilize or come into contact with numerous media in their daily lives, to understand, enjoy, and analyze language media fundamentally, and that they could induce positive attitudinal changes in students. It was likewise determined that the aforementioned program could be used as an effective language media instruction method, teaching the students to act subjectively.
It is suggested that further studies focus on the composition of language media production programs for the Internet, the newest media, and on the measurement of the learners’ language media reading ability.