문화교수의 쟁점을 통해서 본 문화교수의 방향성 모색

A Study on a New Direction of Culture Education: By Discussion of Controviersial Issues on Current Culture Education

This study attempts to investigate several issues featured in Korean culture education and suggest a future direction in which cultural education should be oriented within the context of language education. In this paper, the following results are obtained by analyzing the previous studies and examining controversial issues about culture education. First, there has been a lack of discussion about the concept of culture and its scope that should be dealt with in language education. The scope of culture education can be differentiated by the purpose of learners as well as the target of education, which is associated with the learners' demand regarding culture education. Therefore, future discussions on culture education should be based upon the purpose-driven and target-specific approach rather than general discussion over the all aspects of the culture education. Second, by a comparative analysis of domestic and international studies, this study finds that there is also a relative lack of discussion about inter-cultural and ethnographical cultural studies, and that a research focus should be placed on culture education contents that can cause communication problems. In addition, depending on the international influence of the so-called target culture and whether or not a learner has prior knowledge, there should be a discussion about what should be benchmarked and how to differentiate among a variety of foreign culture education methodologies. Third. this study tries to differentiate between culture education contents associate with language education and independent culture education and identify their methodological differences in culture education. A further discussion in this way can contribute to establishment of contents in cultural education within the context of language education.