한국어능력시험에 제시된 텍스트 분석 연구

An analysis of the texts in the revised TOPIKⅡ:With emphasis on the 36th and 37th tests of listening, writing and reading.

Until now, studies on the texts of the TOPIK in Korean studies were extremely rare. This paper points out the ambiguities in the test instructions in the current TOPIK, analyzes the texts for the improvement of text substantiality, and proposes ways of improvement in text structure, degree of authenticity, type of texts, and the methods of presenting information. The Analysis reveals that in terms of the form of text structure, descriptive sentence types appear most frequently, and these texts have the highest degree of authenticity. On the other hand, in terms of content of text, texts of information presentation appear most frequently, and they have two distinctive manners of knowledge presentation; knowledge implication type and material content type. Therefore, in order to improve the quality of the test, this paper suggests that TOPIKⅡ should use text structure such as story telling language material or non-verbal material including pictures and graphics more. It would increase the authenticity in writing and reading sections as well as the number of texts for emotional expression, and utilize flexible manners of information presentation