This study sought the content and methods of Korean language education using essays for foreign workers, and examined responses by applying a class model. This study started with the idea that Korean language and Korean culture education for better co...
This study sought the content and methods of Korean language education using essays for foreign workers, and examined responses by applying a class model. This study started with the idea that Korean language and Korean culture education for better communication skills alone would not solve the problems, given the prevention of possible problems with the growing number of foreign workers in Korea and their positive impact on the domestic labor market, and accordingly it suggested the teaching content and methods.
Therefore, this study aimed to find an integrated education method for Korean language, literature, and culture using essays. Foreign workers need to learn Korean language and Korean culture effectively in Korean language education. In particular, Korean education should pay attention to the smooth communication effect for foreign workers to adapt to Korean society. In this regard, essays are a very proper tool for this education. Essays, a literary genre that depicts personal daily experiences, are expressed in everyday language so they are practical language materials for understanding Korean emotions and culture and at the same time they are highly valuable as a cultural education material because it contains abundant information on society and culture the writers experience.
This study revised and presented the educational procedures and content of a dialogue-centered teaching method, a literary education method of Korean language education, in order to find specific teaching and learning methods for the integrated education of language, literature, and culture using essays. In addition, essays suitable for intermediate foreign workers were selected, in consideration of the learner's learning environment and level. As a result, they have been concretized as a lesson plan using 「Mistake Experience」 written about experiences in daily life and work life that foreign workers can easily understand.
This study has educational value in that it presents a specific teaching method using essays and applies a teaching model although there are few studies on Korean language teaching and learning methods using literature for foreign workers.