해외에서의 아동 대상 한국어교육의 쟁점과 과제

Issues and Tasks in Korean Language Education for Children Abroad

This study is for suggesting issues and tasks in discussing on Korean language education for children who are the major group of Korean language leaners abroad. Child learners are cognitively and linguistically different from the adult learners, and it is unreasonable to apply the accomplishment in Korean language education for adults to children as it was. Nevertheless, up to now the researches focusing on the characteristics of children are insufficient. In this study, the characteristics of children as foreign language leaners are detailed to these three, that there are big differences in that period as a rapid developmental period, they don't depend on logical thinking in learning foreign language, and they learn foreign language synthetically with the inquiry to the world. Based on these characteristics, level constitution, level object and target level in curriculum, the time in suggesting written language in earnest and the teaching methods for children are proposed as the issuses and tasks.