As the number of domestic female marriage immigrants and foreign workers increase rapidly, Korea is developing as a multicultural society as well. As the number of multicultural homes increase, the education issue of multicultural homes' children has ...
As the number of domestic female marriage immigrants and foreign workers increase rapidly, Korea is developing as a multicultural society as well. As the number of multicultural homes increase, the education issue of multicultural homes' children has emerged as a social issue after 2006. Children from multicultural homes have been brought up under foreign parents, and their pace of Korean language development is slower than other homes' children of the same age. Such issue was found to be more critical in elementary education settings for children from multicultural homes. In other words, the difference in Korean language ability between children from multicultural homes and children from regular homes is getting larger. In order to reduce such difference, Korean language textbook targeting children from multicultural homes was developed to improve Korean language ability and learning issues. However, such textbooks are not being used in actual learning settings. Also, there are questions about the contents of textbooks. This research will examine such textbooks from the aspects of language usage, language knowledge and literature, and inspect if Korean language textbooks targeting children from multicultural homes can bring up the language levels of children from multicultural homes to the level of children from regular homes and language level per grade stated by public education. Furthermore, its contribution to weak subject learning will be analyzed. More children from multicultural homes are expected to enter elementary schools in a future. Proper low grade Korean language education must be implemented in order to prevent difficulties in learning caused by insufficient fundamental Korean language ability and subsequent difficulties in
social and school life.