특수목적외국어교육의 연구주제들

Research Topics in Teaching Language for Specific Purposes

This paper overviews the research topics in the field of teaching languages for specific purposes. Of a multitude of issues related to language for specific purposes (LSP) research, this paper focuses on the central issues common to all LSP research: LSP needs analysis, LSP genre analysis, LSP register analysis, LSP teaching methods, and LSP assessments and evaluations. Each of the LSP research issues is examined in detail by discussing related theoretical and empirical studies. Considering the growing interest in LSP education in the field of teaching Korean as a foreign language in recent years, it is hoped that this paper can shed light on the research of teaching and learning Korean for specific purposes.