한국어 교육의 현황과 과제

The current state and tasks of the Korean language education.

Korea has high ethnolinguistic vitality in terms of demographic capital (language population), political capital, economic capital, and cultural capital. The domestic Korean language education is mostly for foreign workers, female emigrants with international marriage, and international students or trainees. The external tasks of the Korean language education can be thorough administration of foreigners’ entry and exit, support for autonomous competition between private educational institutions, and support for long-term basic business of the Korean language education. The improvement of the system of certifying Korean language teachers is also necessary, and the policy should go toward integration with considering the failure of Western policies of multiculturalism. The internal tasks of the Korean language education can be purifying the Korean language, organizing the norms of language, establishing the world standard Korean language and standard Korean language grammar, building corpora, developing contrastive grammar, and pedagogical innovation in each language area. The overseas Korean language education should focus on strengthening learners’ motivation and bilingualism.