외국인을 위한 문화 교육으로서의 한국어 교재 분석과 교재 구성의 방향

Analysis of Cultural Education Textbooks for Foreigners and Directions in Organizing those Textbooks

The current teaching of KFL (Korean as a Foreign Language) has been focusing on cultural education as well as language education in order to promote learners’ communicative abilities. A majority of Korean language institutes have been performing cultural education using both field trips and textbooks. Accordingly, textbooks should be written in a systematic yet diverse manner so that the cultural items they contain correspond with learners’ interests. This study analyzes the textbooks for culture according to they ways in which they present culture, following which it discusses setting the goals of cultural education and selecting cultural items. It also points out that the content of the culture presented should be diverse, and that, following sufficient discussion, a system for organizing textbooks related to language education according to level is needed.