다문화가정 아동을 위한 학습 도구로서의 쓰기 과제 연구

Korean Writing to Learn Tasks for Children of Multicultural Families

This study aims to suggest types of writing to learn tasks for children of multicutural families. Writing tasks have been studied focusing on tasks to enhance the communicative skills. However, children of multicultural families have distinctive needs and characteristics in terms of developmental stages and cognitive level. Therefore, in this study writing could be important vehicle to improve children’s language and study skills. Writing to learn tasks is proved to develop learners’ study skills as well as their academic achievement. These tasks is also called writing across curriculum and content area writing because it is used to study other than Korean language. However, Pyojun Hangugo (Standard Korean) published for children of multicultural families does not reflect the writing to learn tasks. Indeed, the textbook focuses on vocabularies and grammar on the writing tasks and on the Haksup Hangugo (Korean for learning) section is heavily skewed to the reading and vocabulary. In this study five tasks are suggested: learning diary, making a question, find out concepts nearby, mind map, writing a explanations. These types of writing tasks could be used for helping children of multicultural families to give individual feedback through writing tasks.