학문 목적 한국어 교과과정 설계 연구

Research on Course Design of Korean for Academic Purposes

The number of foreign students enrolled in Korean colleges and graduate schools has been gradually increasing. Especially, it is noticeable that the number of those who passed the 5 or 6 level of Korean Proficiency Test increases. However, even the advanced Korean students who graduated from language courses have difficulties to succeed in the academic mainstream of university. The main reason is that the most of Korean language courses taken by foreign students are designed for survival or general purposes. However, having an ultimate goal to achieve a degree, like Korean students, foreign students who enter the university must communicate in Korean under the academic circumstances, such as taking courses, writing papers, preparing exams, reading references, and participating debates and discussions. Thus, it is not always easy for them to take academic activities only with Korean for everyday life. In order to resolve this kind of problem, it is necessary that the differences between Korean for academic purposes and Korean for survival or general purposes be analyzed and that the teaching method be researched to develop the Korean proficiency required by academic situation. This research provides academic topic, language structure, activities, and skills required by the program of KAP (Korean for academic purposes) by analyzing academic materials to be dealt with by university students, offers examples of the sample of course design and proposes teaching material development.