반의관계를 이용한 한국어 교육 방안

A Study on Korean Teaching Methods Using Antonymy

This study aims to suggest Korean teaching methods using antonymy. To attain the goal, this paper examines how antonymy is used in existing Korean textbooks beforehand and then suggests a teaching method to provide the list of antonyms along with their semantic functions and sentence patterns using them. Existing Korean textbooks use antonyms in three aspects: providing word pairs, providing antonymic pairs for the target sentence pattern, and using antonymy with examples. However, antonymy has not been used actively and systematically compared with the easiness of its recognition and their importance of use. This study insists that in order to use antonymy variously and systematically, not only to provide and teach antonyms but also to suggest their semantic functions in sentences and sentence patterns showing typical antonymic construction are needed so that the learners can acquire the semantic functions which antonymy constructs. Moreover, it emphasizes that it is needed to suggest the list of antonymic words and show the antonymy of related words in the textbook within the semantic field of the identical sequence. With this method, Korean learners not only can acquire antonymic words but can acquire the ways to use them properly as well. Through follow-up researches on the semantic functions of sequential relationships such as antonymy and also synonymy and hypernymy, it is expected to suggest various methods to enhance Korean learners’ ability to use Korean.