학습자 연령 변인에 따른 한국어 문법 교수 항목 비교 연구

The Research on the Comparison of Grammar Teaching Items Related to Age Variable: Focused on Textbooks for Korean Children Learners and Korean Adult Learners

This study is interested in age variable of Korean language learners and then it is argue that we need to different teaching approaches to Korean children learners and adult learners. For supporting this issue, the aim of the study was to explore the difference of grammar teaching items between Korean children learner’s textbooks and adult learner’s textbooks. To attain the purpose of the study, it is examined the difference about cognitive aspects and language teaching aspects from children learners. Then, this study is to inquire into main characteristics of grammar items between children’s text book - ‘Standard Korean textbook’ for Multi-culture Elementary school students and ‘Customized Korean textbook’ which is used in Korean schools for heritage learners – and adult learners’s text book. The results were as follows; first, it is small in number of grammar items compare to adults textbooks. Second, it is concentrated in the items as beginner level. third, some part of the items from children’s textbook contain the chunk. Lastly, education for children is much more focused on pronunciation and orthography. In addition to this, the findings revealed that in textbooks for adult use Meta language and mother tongue to give explicit description of grammar items.