국어 의식 조사 연구

A Study on the Consciousness of Korean Language: Korean`s Consciousness of Mother Tongue and Foreign Language and Foreigners` Consciousness of Korean Language & Culture

For the ideal language policy the administrative part of language policy should survey the actual condition of language use of people regularly. We proposed six domains for this survey: (1) the consciousness of language(mother tongue and foreign language), (2) the ability of language use, (3) the features of language, (4) the language behaviour, (5) the environment of language, (6) the language policy. The aim of this paper is to survey the consciousness of Korean language and foreign languages by native and people from abroad. This survey referred to the same survey on the Japanese consciousness of their mother tongue and foreign languages. Ⅰ. The survey on the consciousness of mother tongue(Korean) and foreign language by native: 1) the language fluency of Korean people: Korean> English>Japanese>German>Chinese>French etc. 2) the image of mother tongue: The large mass of the people(69.3%) think Korean language is beautiful and bright. The one-third majority(32.6%) only think Korean language is easy. The one-twentieth(5.7%) dislike mother tongue because of difficulties in the entrance exam for University. 3) Korean people think English, Chinese, Japanese, French and German as international languages. 4) The motives of learning foreign language are job, business, journey, new curiosity, increase of income, and learning culture etc. 2. The survey on the consciousness of Korean language and culture by the people from abroad. 1) Foreigners learnt Korean in school(40%), private school(53%), self-study(2%) and private lesson(2%) etc. 2) The motives of learning Korean are job(46.4%), business(9.8%), culture(8%), curiosity (6.2%), good impression on Korea(4.5%), increase of income(4.5%) etc. 3) The ranking of key words for Korean culture are these: 한글 > 김치 > 태권도 > 불고기 > 한복 > 설악산 > 인삼 > 불국사 > 석굴암 > 탈 춤 > 거북선 > 종묘 대제 etc. 4) The positive images of Korea are wealthy(32.4%), modern(48.6%), democratic(46.8%), trustworthy(28.8%), apprehensible(33.3%). Majority(56.1%) of respondents like Korea. 5) The positive images of Korean people are diligent(58.5%), arrogant(45%), good-fellowship(39.6%), trustworthy(27.9%), apprehensible(22.5%). Majority (51.3%) of respondents like Korean people and culture. Since the cultural learning is important to language learning, there have been many attempts to integrate language and culture in the Korean language education. Teachers should know the consciousness of foreign students about Korean language and culture. The regular survey of consciousness of Korean language and culture should be carried out to construct the strategies for teaching Korean language and the policy of overseas information and improvement of national image.