In this paper, I investigate how Gouin Direct Method was introduced as Korean Teaching Method by Swallen, one of the western missionaries in the 19th century in Korea and why he adopted it as a alternative teaching method for Korean language teaching ...
In this paper, I investigate how Gouin Direct Method was introduced as Korean Teaching Method by Swallen, one of the western missionaries in the 19th century in Korea and why he adopted it as a alternative teaching method for Korean language teaching at the time. Audio Lingual Method has been implicitly accepted as a secondly employed teaching method following Grammar Translation method which was firstly employed for Korean language teaching in Korea.
But I found Gouin Direct Method was applied before Audio Lingual Method in the Korean language teaching method history through examining Swallen’s papers published in the 『韓國學彙報 Korean Repository』(1892~1898). Swallen thought Gouin Direct Method enable to supplement old Grammar Translation method for Korean language teaching in that new method reflect the natural procedure by which thought was transformed into language and the naturalness of language acquisition process need to be taken into account in the Korean language classroom.
Gouin Direct Method was noted not only for its verb-oriented skill but also its focus on pronunciation, accent, etc. It was Gouin Direct Method that enable Korean language teaching firstly to consider Korean pronunciation in its application to Korean teaching. Due to Swallen’s contribution to 『韓國學彙報 Korean Repository』(1892~1898), which was issued at the end of 19th century in Korea, we can figure out what kind of teaching method was employed in the Korean language teaching at the time and how significant it was in the history of Korean teaching.