This paper discusses the characteristics of teaching Korean grammar in Japan, focusing on the teaching environment and the content of grammar material in the college level education. In order to examine the features of teaching environment, I investig...
This paper discusses the characteristics of teaching Korean grammar in Japan, focusing on the teaching environment and the content of grammar material in the college level education. In order to examine the features of teaching environment, I investigate the historical sequence of teaching Korean in Japan. I argue that the teaching environment in the current college education has problems in time restriction, class size, and instructors. The problems in the teaching content are unstandardized grammatical terms, different grammar systems between colleges, and the disagreement between learner`s expectation and their achievement. In addition, the method of teaching vocabulary and understanding-oriented learning are another problems connected to teaching grammar.