기획주제: 교과 교육과 독서 지도의 방향 : 교과독서의 본질과 과제 = The meaning & implications of Content Area Reading

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper aims to review content area reading`s characteristics and function. Language teaching has an effect on many content subjects from elementary school to college. Especially since korean language teaching focused on developing communicative competence in 5th curriculum period, it`s wide range functions and relationships on other subjects, like social and science subject, were begin to reinforce. Then, it`s cross-curriculum characteristics was taken notice of other disciplines. And at that time korean education researchers did not avoid to meet another dilemma. They had to prescribe it`s original domain, on the other hand, to use other contents area materials widely, maintaining close relationships with other contents disciplines. Now korean lessons are to guide & elaborate their students` thinking way, instead of teaching directly knowledge for their students` study. So it doesn`t matter what subjects are used in lessons. Because of constructivism`s knowledge viewpoint, content area teaching is ahead to develop their students` thinking process, not focusing on their own content knowledge. It is called `content literacy`. At that point, korean reading lessons and content area reading finally meet together, and have one goal, to develop their students` literacy. Therefore it need to start cooperative research on constructing reading program for content literacy, and ask more institutional supports.