제2언어로서의 한국어 아동 학습자의 작문 담화 능력 발달

Development of Discourse Competence in Writing Composition of Child Language Learners as a Second Language

This study is for looking into development of discourse competence in writing composition of child language learners as a second language. Discourse competence in writing composition is the competence to produce composition that is coherent and cohesive in units bigger than sentences. For this study, writing data from four KSL child learners were collected and analysed to see stages in development of discourse competence. As a results, five stages were established, stage of pre-discourse, stage of discourse emergence, stage of discourse elaborating, stage of discourse expansion, and stage of discourse systematization. The results of this study should be helpful in establishing curricular objects and assessment criterion, developing materials and assessment tests, and proposing educational direction for the education of writing for child Korean language learners as a second language.