In order to improve the communication skills of Korean language learners in Korean language education, we attempted to develop a construct that can measure sociocultural competency in speaking evaluations. Communication is mostly accomplished through ...
In order to improve the communication skills of Korean language learners in Korean language education, we attempted to develop a construct that can measure sociocultural competency in speaking evaluations. Communication is mostly accomplished through language, and because language involves sociocultural components, sociocultural competence is a crucial communication competence. As a result, sociocultural competence was set as an evaluation construct and assessed in the current speaking evaluation, but it was confirmed that it did not capture all of the elements that appear in Korean society and did not cover cultural aspects that should be considered important in sociocultural competence. Therefore, in this study, sociocultural competence was largely divided into phonology, vocabulary, grammar, text, culture, and a sociocultural competence evaluation construct was established that included those who were unable to evaluate sociocultural elements using existing items.