페이스북을 이용한 한국어 초급 수업

The Application of Facebook to Korean Elementary Class

In Korean language education, multimedia has been widely used. However, most of them are either using computer programs to show pictures, videos or document files during the lesson or web-based learning; which is teacher-centered. However, the era has been changed into Web 2.0 like SNS etc. It allows us to have learner-centered learning and increases two sided interaction and communication. Korean language education setting in foreign countries is different from domestic. In detail, time tends to be limited to conduct 4 main functions like speaking, listening, reading and writing. Especially, writing may tend to be skipped or be handed over as homework. Furthermore, learners have limited exposure to target language, which means they do not produce enough output to use what they learnt from the class. Therefore, in this study, I suggest the lesson plan on Korean writing class using Facebook as a teaching and learning platform to carry out writing lesson which could not be covered in face to face classroom. In order to use Facebook in Korean language education, this study examines theoretical bases upon constructivism theory, noticing hypothesis and output hypothesis. At the same time, in order to find out the effect of using Facebook in the Korean class, the survey was conducted. However, this study is only based on Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Also the survey was limited to basic descriptive statistics such as frequency only.