이중언어학과 한국이중언어학회의 발전 과정

Developmental Processes of the Theory of Bilingual Education and the Korean Society of Bilingualism

The purpose of this study is to review the developmental process of bilingualism in theory or viewpoint in general and examine the activity of the Korean Society of Bilingualism. In this paper bilingual education is suggested as a better educational support for the multicultural students in Korea. That is, bilingual education is very good educational model for them not only in terms of transitional bilingual education level, but also maintenance and additive or enrichment type of bilingual education. The third type of bilingual education, additive bilingual education is valid not only for the minority students, but also beneficial to the majority Korean students. At present the number of multicultural students are increasing up to 7.8% yearly, despite total number of students are decreasing in Korean schools. Various kinds of multicultural students are coming in Korean Society and Korean government has obligations to support and lead them to settle down smoothly and well going to higher level of schools and finally to achieve their dreams or goals. Since The Korean society of Bilingualism has established 40 years ago, Sep. 26, 1981, the Society has been developed tremendously not only in number of members but also in quality of research. The “Bilingual Research” has been published four times a year (No 86 at present) and has been nominated as a ‘Good journal’ by the Korean Academic Foundation and became one of the best academic journals in humanities. Yet a few points of revisions or improvements are discussed in this paper.