학문 목적 한국어를 위한 강의 담화표지 학습 연구

Research on the Education of Discourse Markers on Listening and Comprehension in Lecture

The purpose of this research is on identifying the change on the degree of listening and comprehension of the learners of the Korean language when lecture discourse markers are learned. The research hypothesis is as follows. First, the education of Korean macro-markers as a functional word for lectures will positively influence the learners' level of comprehension about the lecture. Second, the difference will be more meaningful in subjective questions than objective questions. With such a research hypothesis as mentioned above, a pre-experiment, in a style of a placement test, was conducted on students who major Korean at Burapha University in Thailand. The analyzed results of the experiment data from the experiment is as follows. First, whereas the difference between the treatment group and the controlled group was not visible in the pre-experiment, it became conspicuous in post-experiments, proving the influence of the education. Second, the difference between the treatment group and the controlled group was more meaningful in subjective questions than objective questions, since the former asks the learners to understand the overall context whereas the latter asks for only plain knowledge. This showed that the learning of lecture markers does not stop at helping the learners understand the overall context of the lecture, but also provides assistance in collecting objective information in the right way.