한국어교수법의 새 방향

New Directions in Korean Language Teaching Methodology

It is imperative that different pedagogical orientations be respected as complementary and not be considered as mutually exclusive. Instead of indiscriminately subscribing to the pendulum of pedagogical trends, the characteristics of the Korean language and the native language of learners have to be taken as the motivating factors for adopting and adapting to “new” directions in pedagogy. In light of the fact that Korean is a Group IV language (on the US Foreign Service Institute scale) and thus one of the most difficult languages for English speakers, I propose, in redesigning of “New Directions in Korean Language Teaching Methodology,” rather than seeking and subscribing to a monolithic approach or a definitive methodology, that we develop an approach that complements a “scientific approach” and communicative language teaching methods. Two seminal empirical research results are presented to support such a complementary approach.