학문 목적 한국어 교재의 읽기 텍스트 연구

A study on reading materials in the Korean language textbooks for academic purposes: focusing on the text variety and difficulty

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reading materials in the Korean language textbooks for academic purposes with a focus on text variety and text difficulty, and to draw educational implications which is appropriate to the current situation of Korean language education for academic purposes. For investigating text variety, we examined themes, functions, and genres of texts in three Korean textbooks for academic purposes. And for measuring text difficulty, we constructed three corpora(reading materials in intermediate textbooks, advanced textbooks and textbooks for academic purposes), then statistically analyzed the differences in text difficulty of them through sentence length, word difficulty, and ending(eomi) difficulty. The result showed that the reading materials in the textbooks for academic purposes were concentrated on the ‘humanities/social’ domain, informative function and the commentary genre. And the text difficulty of the textbooks for academic purposes was same as the difficulty level of the general purpose-advanced textbooks. Based on this, we suggested that the difficulty of the Korean reading materials for academic purposes needs to be subdivided, and the text diversity should be increased.