요구 분석을 통한 중국 대학의 한국어 전공자용 읽기 교재 개발 연구

A Study on Developing Reading Textbooks for Korean Language Majors in Chinese Universities based on a Needs Analysis

Reading education for Korean language majors in China is required to motivate and increase the interests of learners, improve reading skills, and allow students to acquire a positive attitude and enthusiasm in reading. In addition, the texts should reflect and share beliefs, knowledge, and values, and allow learners to indirectly experience and further apply them within the everyday communicative context. This can be meaningful as the goals of reading education enable learners to read and transcend in time and space, which in turn, will facilitate the chance to participate in future opportunities of related fields in Korea. Needs analysis was conducted among current Korean major students and students who have graduated with aims of finding implications for developing appropriate texts that reflect the learners’ needs. The reading Textbooks for Korean majors should be equipped with features as follows. Fist of all, it should consist of a wide range of subjects and texts in order to have knowledge and refinement Korean majors must have. In addition, the textbook should deal with not only cultural texts for successful communication in the future workplace, but also the contents concerning politics, economy and society.