일본의 한국어 교육에 있어서 문화교육의 현황과 전망

A study on cultural education in Korean language education of Japan.

This paper aims to review the state of cultural education in Korean language education of Japan and to explore new direction of cultural education, especially at university level. Firstly, as the feature of cultural education, intercultural perspective, learner centerness and the balance between universality and uniqueness are suggested. Secondly, the state of foreign language education in the schools of Japan is reviewed. Although the policy on foreign language education is English centered and skill oriented, there also are some attempts to promote communicative competence of many other languages in Japan. Thirdly, the Korean culture items in the university textbooks are examined. In most cases, the Korean culture is presented as a subject of knowledge and a little critical perspective on the culture suggested. It is necessary for the teachers to take extra effort in order to get proper outcomes of the features of cultural education in their own classes. Finally, a case of project based learning (PBL) class which is designed for sophomore class of Korean language department of a university in Japan is brought out. There are some works to be done, the problem of how to introduce the attainments of Korean Japanese contrastive pragmatic studies to Korean language education.