수탁 생도 입교 기준의 효용성 연구

A Study on the Utility of the Entrance Requirement for Foreign Cadets

This research is a basic research to find out ways to improve the academic ability of foreign cadets in Korea, aiming to survey foreign cadets’ needs and test the appropriateness of the TOPIK 3rd level as an assessment tool for the level of Korean proficiency required of them. To this end, all 66 foreign cadets in the Korean military academy have been surveyed, and it was found that the foreign cadets needed ‘speaking ability’ the most among other language functions. They also had difficulties in understanding lectures, reading study materials, writing reports, and discussing･debating by function. The most frequently cited reason in all 4 functions was ‘vocabulary’. The needs assessment for vocabulary revealed that they were in the highest need of conversational vocabulary, training-related vocabulary, and major-related vocabulary. In this context, questions in TOPIKⅡ had been analyzed and it was found that studying for TOPIKⅡ was helpful to improve general Korean language ability but inappropriate to develop foreign cadets’ academic ability given the unique situation that they are in. Curriculum and assessments that are appropriate for foreign cadets need to be developed for efficient education as soon as possible.