가치 중심 한국어 교육 연구

Value-based Language Teaching in Korean Education

Language education is evolving from emphasizing communication-based instruction to communicationbased with content instruction. From that came language instruction for specific-skills such as language for academic or job specific purposes. However, content seems to be localized knowledge. Just as important as knowledge in language teaching is teaching and sharing the target language’s thinking and culture. Learning a language is not only gaining knowledge of a culture but its “values” as well. More specifically the process involves learning about those values. Preparing students for communication is the means to an end, not the end itself. Depending on the type of students, the focus of what main values to teach would vary. I often question the ‘generality’ in “teaching Korean for general purposes”; can there be a general purpose in teaching a language? I would like to argue here that even in teaching Korean for general purposes it should contain and reflect Korean thinking and universal values. A goal to impart content in language teaching where its main goal and objective is to reach either fluency or accuracy or both should be included in its curriculum. Content may be viewed as “contents of knowledge” and “value of wisdom,” and teachable using either CBLT(content-based language teaching) which is active and straight forward or via VBLT(value-based language teaching) which is passive and suggestive. This paper discusses ways to teach VBLT than CBLT.