‘토플대란’에 관한 신문기사 분석

Analyzing newspaper articles on ‘TOEFL Crisis’ through critical discourse analysis

The purpose of this study is to analyze two newspapers’ (Chosun Ilbo and Donga Ilbo) articles on ‘TOEFL Crisis’ from the viewpoint of critical discourse analysis. All the related articles, most of which appeared in 2007, were collected over the Internet Newspaper archives. The discourse event of ‘TOEFL Crisis’ and its social practice were discussed from the dimensions of textual, discourse, and social practice (Fairclough, 2001, 2005). It was found that the crisis discourse was formulated in terms of market principles and social utilities. The discursive events were also connected to neoliberalism and neoconservatism, those of which were implicitly articulated to dichotomize the imported TOEFL with newly developed tests of English indigenous to Korea.