문화 교수와 담화 교육

Cultural teaching and discourse education.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify that cultural teaching in language education is rather essential than additional element to be connected with language teaching. In the field of language education, cultural teaching often put a focus on the characteristics of culture itself, which is separate from language. Although the teaching of these culture-independent items is also important, considering the educational field where language learning is the main focus, it is more important to pay attention to the cultural characteristics revealed in the language and to educate them. First, this study proposes cultural teaching items according to proficiency through analysis of Korean textbooks and Korean cultural books. Since culture is difficult to set difficulty level, a basic content presentation type (matrix type) is suggested rather than a liner type approach. These are based on the importance of the culture itself, which can be treated as the native language of learners, not the target language, Korean. Next, this study emphasizes the necessity of language education connected with culture, and presents the cases of discourse markers and grammar teaching to specify them. This study suggests that discourse markers are insufficient only by lexical approach, and they should be taught with a focus on function of discourse in consideration of context and environment of discourse. In addition, it is emphasized that the grammar teaching should not only be carried out about the syntactic constraints of grammatical items, but also should be related to the utterance intention of the speaker in discourse levels and the context in which communication takes place. This study wants to show that the context is based on Korean culture.