초등국어교육에서의 국어 지식 영역의 내용

Contents Analysis and Problems of the Korean Knowledge Chapter in the Elementary Education

This study is concerned with investigating the status and reality of 'Korean Knowledge' chapter in the 7th curriculum and its textbook contents in the 6th year (in elementary education) Conclusions are reached as follows: 1) In the Korean Knowledge chapter, Korean knowledge of educational value is treated in the ‘Korean Fundamentals' part, while conceptual understanding of the structural features of Korean is described in the ‘Understanding and Exploring of Korean' part and those having strong formalities in the ‘Rules and Applications of Korean' part. 2) In the curriculum for the 1th-6th year, for example, the Korean Knowledge chapter is composed of 50% of ‘Understanding and Exploring of Korean,' 23% of ‘Attitudes toward Korean', 15.38% of ‘Fundamentals of Korean,' 11.53% of ‘Rules and Applications of Korean', with the ‘Understanding and Exploring of Korean' taking the largest share. 3) In the part of ‘Fundamentals of Korean', there are 3 part ; the property of language, the characteristic Korean and the change of Korean. Among these parts, the part of ‘the change of Korean' is emptied and have to be supplemented, with the ‘property of language' taking the largest share. 4) The part of ‘Attitudes toward Korean' is composed of the part of ‘motivation, interesting, habit and value'. Among these parts, the parts of the ‘motivation' and the ‘interesting' are not embodied in the textbook, so must be supplemented. 5) In the part of the ‘Understanding and Exploring of Korean', the parts of ‘phoneme, lexical, syntax' and especially the part of ‘discourse' must be supplemented.