한국어 교재의 과제 복잡성 분석 연구

A Study on the Task Complexity of Korean Textbooks: Focus on the Three Kinds of Korean Integrated Textbooks

This study examines the complexity of tasks in selecting Korean language textbooks. To analyze the task complexity, this study first extracted the tasks from Korean textbooks and analyzed the cognition complexity of each task, focusing on resource-directing factors (here and now, few elements, causal reasoning, intentional reasoning, and perspective-taking) and resource-dispersing factors (prior knowledge, single tasks) by reorganizing the appropriate factors of Robinson’s (2007) task complexity factors. This study sought to examine how textbooks progress from the simplest to the most complex tasks within each Korean textbook and across levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced). After classifying the level of task complexity across textbook levels, the result showed that simple tasks showed low distribution and the complex tasks showed high distribution as the textbook level progressed. Furthermore, Korean textbooks showed a linear progression of task complexity across levels, but they did not show such aspects per unit within each Korean textbook level.