학문 목적 한국어 분야에서의 요구 분석 연구 동향 분석

A trend analysis of research on needs analysis in the field of Korean for Academic Purposes

This paper presents a qualitative research synthesis of the studies on needs analysis in the field of Korean for academic purposes from 2003 to 2012. A total number of 47 research articles and theses/dissertations published during this period were classified and coded according to an analytic framework in terms of (1) types of analysis, (2) objects of analysis, (3) learner characteristics, (4) skills analysed, and (5) methods of analysis. The results show that (1) half of the studies took needs analysis as their main research topic, while the other half simply used needs analysis as one of their research methods; (2) the majority of the studies used questionnaires as their primary data collection method, and (3) the learner was the main object of analysis. The paper ends with suggestions for future research directions.