신문을 활용한 한국어 교육 방법 연구

Study of newspaper-based Korean language teaching

The purpose of this article is to propose a method for integrated Korean language teaching by using newspaper articles. By means of the newspaper-based teaching in Korean language education, 1) foreign learners are able to naturally approach Korean; 2) they are exposed to Korean society and culture at the same time; 3) authentic materials having plenty of information can be utilized; 4) it is easy to let them have inner motivations of their own interest in learning Korean; 5) newspapers are useful materials to drill them in reading strategy; 6) learners are taught Korean comprehensively; and 7) they can learn Korean by the key-sentence approaching method without difficulty. Since foreign learners find newspaper articles difficult, teachers have to select articles for class taking the following into consideration: 1) learners' capacities to learn; 2) the length of an article; 3) topics to hook their interest; 4) topics to help them understand the society and culture of Korea; 5) various types of newspaper and their colorful contents; and 6) topics as current as possible.