The purpose of this study is to devise a teaching-learning methodology which emphasizes the importance of reading abilities and aims to improve learners' reading performances, with Mongolian university students of Korean language major as participants...
The purpose of this study is to devise a teaching-learning methodology which emphasizes the importance of reading abilities and aims to improve learners' reading performances, with Mongolian university students of Korean language major as participants.
This study intends to make a diagnosis on the problems of Korean reading education in Mongolia and to devisean effective teaching-learning methodology by which a high standard of reading education for Mongolian advanced learners of Korean can be established. In this regard, this study looked into the teaching-learning methodology based on informative texts which learners would find very useful.
Chapter II of this study made a comprehensive discussion on texts. The major interests of this study such as texts, text types, text structures and the notion of informative texts were defined in definite terms. And chapter III was discussed the status of informative texts in reading education. This chapter emphasized the necessity of the introduction of informative texts into Korean reading classes. It has much significance not only from the perspective of language education but also in that it activates learners' world knowledge and socio-cultural knowledge. With these implications in mind, this study attempted to establish a set of criteria for selecting appropriate informative texts in the field of reading education.
With these findings in consideration, the chapter IV discussed the methods to put informative texts into practices in reading classes for the purpose of improving the reading abilities of Mongolian advanced learners of Korean. This chapter set up the objective and contents of teaching informative texts reading by which learners can transform informative texts into their own knowledge. For this aim, this chapter provided reading strategies and guiding principles which will help learners to be accustomed to the structure of informative texts.