한국어 교육 정책과 문화 교육의 연구 동향 분석

Research Trend of Korean Language Education Policy and Korean Culture Education

This article aims to analyze the research trend of Korean Language Education Policy and Korean Culture Education through reviewing the articles on both fields which appears in <Korean Language Education>, the Journal of International Association of Korean Language Education(IAKLE). The number of articles which are reviewed in this study is 761, and these are from the first issue through the 27th issue(March 2015) of <Korean Language Education>. I categorized Korean language education policy and Korean culture education into several subcategories by certain principles, since the studies on the sub-categorization of these fields have not been done, yet. The field of Korean language education policy is categorized into five subcategories, and that of Korean culture education into six. According to the analysis, the number of the articles on Korean education field among the articles of Korean language education policy reaches 34, and it accounts for 65.4 percent. And, the number of the articles on culture education methods among the articles on Korean culture education is 21, and it accounts for 31.3 percent. The result of analysis shows that the number of research articles on both Korean language education policy and Korean culture education is rapidly increasing and it implies that these are newly-rising fields of Korean language education. Also, it is worth noticing that the range of the research articles on Korean language education policy is widening and the number of them is rapidly increasing since the involvement of Korean government in Korean language education. This review also shows that there are a few researches on subcategories of both Korean language education policy and Korean culture education. And, it deserves to concern about further studies on the subcategories of both fields for the development of Korean language education.