내용 분석을 중심으로 한 한국어 연구 논문 서론의 장르 분석 연구

A Genre-Analytic Study of Korean Research Article Introductions with a Focus on Content Analysis

This study analyzed a total of 50 research article (RA) introductions written by one group of graduate students (n=25) (GA) with explicit genre awareness training and the other group (n=25) (NGA) with no such training. A preliminary analytical framework, based on Swales’ (1990) CARS model and Park’s (2006) K-CARS model, was developed and applied. The results are as follows. First, most of the introductions by both GA and NGA groups showed the rhetorical structure of moves and steps identified in Swales’ (1990) CARS model and Park’s (2006) K-CARS model. There were, however, some steps that could not be explained by the K-CARS model. Accordingly, the results of this preliminary analysis were incorporated and a revised K-CARS model was proposed to analyze RA introductions in the field of Korean as a Second/Foreign Language. Second, the GA showed a predominantly large number of introductions with research questions and research methods over the NGA. This could be interpreted as evidence that the GA was aware of the role and function of these steps in RA introductions commonly accepted in the field of Educational Psychology. This latter finding suggests that the result of this study has implications for teaching academic Korean writing to learners of Korean for academic purposes as it is expected that they could benefit from explicit genre awareness training when they are preparing for college and graduate school education in Korean.