해외 선교사 자녀의 한국어 능력과 변인 연구

A Study on the Heritage Language Competence of Missionary Kids and their variables

This study aimed at investigating heritage language competence of missionary kids(MK) and variables influencing competence. Data came from 93 students of two missionary schools in Philippines: One is Korean Academy(KA), and the other is International Academy(IA). To meet the goal, the study examined grammatical and pragmatic competence by grammatical judgment test(GJT) and acceptability judgment test(AJT). The study found out that there was no difference in pragmatic competence, but meaningful discrepancy was found in grammatical competence. In IA MK, daily hours of using Korean and learning period of Korean showed positive correlation with grammatical competence, however learning period of Korean and ARC showed positive correlation with grammatical competence in KA MK. IA MK showed correlation between motivation and pragmatic competence, however KA MK showed correlation between motivation and grammatical competence. Ethnic cultural identity only correlated with both grammatical and pragmatic competence in KA MK. This study proved that learner variables gave effect differently to linguistic competence following to which school they attend to.