학문 목적 학습자들의 읽기 능력 향상을 위한 교육 방안 연구

A Study on Teaching Methods for Improving Reading Comprehension of Foreign Students for Academic Purpose

The purpose of this study is to propose a method of teaching Korean reading to improve reading comprehension skills and lead to self-directed learning for foreign students studying at Universities. Reading activities play a critical role in university studies, and students themselves must read and understand actively in order to ensure success in their classes. Therefore, the teacher’s role in a Korean Reading class is to help students understand the content of the writing and lead them to study actively on their own. This study applied a CALLA (cognitive academic language learning approach) instructional model to Korean Reading classes, especially focused on the activities of the ‘practice’ and ‘self-evaluation’ stages of this model. In these stages, strategies practice papers and self-inspection papers were used in class. Experiments were conducted to verify the effectiveness of this method. The experiments were conducted during two classes of Korean Reading 2. As a result, the experimental group improved their reading ability significantly, while the control group did not. This method was especially effective for students with low reading skills. In a follow-up survey, learners responded that all of the students in the experimental group said that the “strategies practice materials” and “self-inspection paper” helped them to better perform in the class. The knowledge gained about their current abilities as it relates to how to read, and reading speed, helped them to improve. Experimental results show that the teaching methods proposed in this study improve students’ reading comprehension and are particularly effective for students with low reading skills.