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The purposes of this study are to clarify features of Korean adverb tel ‘less’ and to apply the result to Korean education as a foreign language. Korean learner’s corpus and Native speakers of Korean’s corpus were used to examine the frequencies of tel ‘less’ and the co-occurrence relation between adverb tel ‘less’ and predicates. The Korean adverb tel ‘less’ is usually studied at the lower level in Korean language learning; however, Korean learners have difficulty in using it because of its properties. The frequency of using tel ‘less’ in learner’s corpus was mush fewer than the frequency of using tel ‘less’ in corpus of native Korean speaker, and there were even many errors. In the corpus from native speakers of Korean, adverb tel ‘less’ was always used in comparative sentences, but the usage of tel ‘less’ was changed by characteristic of predicates in comparative sentences. If the adverb tel ‘less’ can be used with poda(보다) ‘than’, tel ‘less’ was used to compare degree of the predicate, which a subject of the sentence had, with another or other things had. However, if the adverb tel ‘less’ cannot be used with poda ‘than’, it was used to compare the degree of predicate itself. Thus, the adverb tel ‘less’ cannot be used when it cannot compare the degree of predicate. I extracted predicates which are frequently used with the adverb tel ‘less’ and presented a way of teaching the adverb tel ‘less’. It would be helpful to apply the properties of adverb tel ‘less’ and the teaching method of it to Korean learners.

To make up the education contents of Korean culture for foreigners, special and well organized methods are needed according to the student's level and the categories of Korean culture. However we don't have any significant programs or papers about this field so far. At the first, I emphasized the Multiculturalism to develop communicative competence instead of verbal communication in Korean Education. As a whole of ways of life, a “culture” is an organic and systematical being. Therefore we need some integrated education to teach the culture. And the culture can be categorized by three types as follows; achievement culture, behavior culture and ideological culture, but they can never be divided. In this paper, I suggest one method that can be used on the Korean Culture classification with these three categories and sub-categories according to competence level. Now, especially the Behavior culture is more important than any other cultures because general communication is realized by verbal and nonverbal gesture. And nonverbal communication holds dominant position in communication compared to verbal communication. Therefore special education methods for teaching behavior culture are needed without any hesitation. Plus, this paper contains the contents of what to teach in the Korean culture.

Korean pastime activities dealt in the ancient murals of Goguryeo and the genre paintings of Joseon are not numerous; games depicted in painting are not various. The ancient murals of Goguryeo usually dealt with subjects of military arts, and the genre paintings of Joseon mostly depicted games of commoners. Since the Korean pastime activities dealt in the genre paintings of Korea usually had purposes of seasonal observance and entertainment while the group games with a mass were not dealt with much, the trend of the late Joseon genre painting appears to avoid large scale drawings of many people in various scenes as if depicting documental art, and prefer simple drawing of relatively small scale drawings of games of the commoners participated by few people. This research is an attempt to understand the disappearing folk games at the point where vigorous research of the pastime culture of Korea is not realized, and pursue original form of games; and formed, at the same time, as a solution of methodology to educate foreign learners about Korean culture. Although ancient murals or genre paintings are only a portion, they became important visual historical material for understanding traditional games of Korea, and the games became one of the themes of genre paintings attracted by artists of important positions in Korean art history. However, since understanding overall pastime activities of Korea through Korean art is difficult due to limited number of ancient murals and genre paintings dealing with various games, one can increase understanding of traditional games through seasonal customs and traditional festivals.

This study is study is to present effective methods for reading strategies during studying textbooks for academic-purposed students. Although necessity of reading strategies training has been emphasized, the researches about the training was rarely done. Thus, in this study, I defined "reading strategies", and exhibited the presentational methods and orders of reading strategies according to the former researches. The order of the strategies is formed in 3 steps; the first step is presenting reading strategies(explanation and modeling), the second step is training for the strategies(simple and complex practices), and the third step is reviewing after the strategies training. Then, based on these steps, I analyzed how the reading strategies were presented in Korean textbooks, especially textbooks for academic-purposed students. Lastly, I presented a model for reading strategies training according to the steps.

This study aims to examine the relationship between children’s mean length of utterance(MLU) and their mothers’ language input in bi-cultural families. To begin with, the study presents the findings of an analysis of mean length of the bi-cultural children’s, which is the barometer of their languag development. the children of Chinese mother exhibit very low scores and that the children of Vietnamese mother is similar to those of Korean families in terms of the scales. On the other hand, the mean length of mothers’ utterances is categorized into two: the mean length of bi-cultural mothers and that of native-korean mother, and the result indicates that the mean length of bi-cultural mothers is relatively lower compared to that of their Korean counterparts. To my surprise the mean length of Vietnamese mother stays low whereas that of their children turns out to be higher. The cause of this phenomenon can be traced back to the features and the types of Korean-language utterance in addition to the mean length of mothers’ utterance. The findings reveal that the type of Vietnamese mother’ utterance is characterized by question types designed to facilitate language development, which is similar to the cases of native-korean mother. This implies that the development of children’s language skills have much to do with various factors such as types of question, types of utterance and the length of utterance.

This study analyzed Korean language learners’ writing texts using T-unit analysis measure that was adapted to Korean syntactic structure in order to find out adequate measures for learners’ syntactic proficiency. The result appeared 12 of 18 measures to be increased with the level and it means those might represent the syntactic proficiency of learners’ writing texts. Among those, average number of words per sentence, average number of clauses per sentence, the proportion of error-free clauses to clauses might be the best measures for fluency, complexity, accuracy of syntactic proficiency.

This research points out that proper nouns, which were considered as having relatively less value in vocabulary, can actually become the shortcut to the fluency of foreign learners. Also, it tries to confirm it's importance on vocabulary by the corpus of native speakers. These serial kinds of vocabulary will be put together under the term ‘culture based vocabulary’ and furthermore, this will be diversly arranged and analyzed. If these words are presented and educated in the field of Korean education, this would do great service to the completion of Korean studying by being extended to the understanding of the cultural, social background of Korean language.

This research begins with the recognition that, until now, cultural factors taught in Korean language textbooks provided knowledge in fragments, not in an optimally organized way. The objective of this research is to develop the “cultural lemma”, and devise the contents of integrated culture learning which consists of linguistic, literary, and cultural factors. It is not a recent trend to emphasize the cultural factor in Korean language education. However, although it’s generally agreed that education on Korean culture is a critical part of language education, it is also true that education on culture still plays only a methodological and supporting role to language education. Therefore, with much more focus on language education, cultural factors are relatively neglected or ignored in actual teaching practice. Especially, the balance between language education and cultural education should be more carefully designed and maintained as it goes to more advanced courses. However, it’s easier said than done with only fractional cultural factors built into the educational system. It’s even worse as most of the current cultural education is practiced with rather random than organized cultural factors without customization based on the learners and their Korean language fluency.

This paper aims to propose a possibility of Didactical Transposition for grammatical knowledge focusing on the Parts of speech. Grammatical knowledge are categorized to the three types. There are an grammatical knowledges as a teacher knowing and grammatical knowledge for a teacher to teach, grammatical knowledge transferred to student etc. Each grammar knowledge is converted. There have been Transpositions in grammatical knowledge. There are an constituent Transpositions, systematic Transpositions and Didactical Transposition etc. A Didactical Transposition of teacher on the parts of speech education shall be made much. Because, parts of speech is treated to concept basic in Korean education as a Foreign language. Two methods were proposed for Didactical Transposition for grammatical knowledge focusing on the Parts of speech in this paper. The one is schematizing parts of speech and another is schematizing research act.

The aim of research is to help Korean learners for purpose of business to write business documents. Business documents have standardize frame which are distinguished by document form and writing style. So, there is little difficulty in writing business documents if someone is familiar with basic frame used in business. This study analyzed documents forms and writing styles used in five different types of business documents which are frequently used in work places and found several characteristics of the forms and styles. In chapter 1, leaner’s needs existing studies researched are analyzed. In chapter 2, this paper researches definition and classification of stylistics and analysis of business documentsIn chapter 3, this paper analyzes formations and styles of business documents using business documentsIn chapter 4, this paper proposes diagrams using the result of chapter 3 and the teaching plan based on the process oriented writing methodI expect this study to be developed further as a new course of Korean language education, supporting undergraduate students who want jobs in Korean companies as well as Korean learners who are employed in a Korean company.

The purpose of this article is to find a method of korean cultural education as the foreign culture in the global era. It is necessary for him who is teaching foreigners from all of the world the korean culture to be the specialist and educator who is always ready to expand the boundary of his academic horizon. It is also demanded for scholars from the humanities to join the Korean cultural education, overcoming the nationalism of Korean culture. It is a way to meet the needs of the globalization and to survive in the international society where the diversity and the multiplicity of cultures are guaranteed. To communicate with each other in the multi-cultural society, both the native speaker as an educator and the foreigner as a learner must be free from the subjectivity-principle of Modernism which enables the former to control the latter in one-sided ways. It is also the only alternative for them to exchange and interchange the languages and the cultures interactively and mutually. In this paper I especially emphasize on the culture as context in using the language in multi-cultural society which is able to build a bridge between the native and the foreign and to find a way to excavate a cultural model of East-Asia. The cultural model of East-Asia is one of the methods of the korean cultural education as the intercultural factor.

본 연구의 목적은 시드니 기술전문대학 (TAFE) 한국어 학습들의 학습 동기, 학습경험 및 학습 선호도를 알아보려는데 있다. 아울러 한국어 프로그램에 포함되어야 할 문화학습 내용과 한국에 대한 첫 인상이나 이미지에 대한 의식도 조사하였다. 이를 위해 한국어 학습의 이유, 학습 경험, 선호하는 학습방법 및 한국에 대한 이미지 등으로 설문 영역을 나누어 조사하였다. 호주의 일반적인 상황과 달리 시드니 기술전문대학 (TAFE) 한국어 프로그램의 상당한 성장은 매우 흥미롭고 조사해 볼만한 가치가 있다. 학생들이 한국어문화권의 일원이 되기를 원하는지, 아니면 단순이 경제적 이득을 얻으려는 것인지, 한국과 한국인에 대한 사회문화적 거리감은 어떤 것인지 등에 대한 조사는 유사 프로그램의 조직에 유용한 정보를 제공할 수 있다. 총 81명의 학생들에게서 설문지 응답을 수집하여 이를 분석하였다. 본 연구는 한국어의 실제 사용에 초점을 맞추는 학습 목표와 수업이 이루어지는 프로그램이 되도록 강조하고 일반인과 사업인들을 위한 사회교육적 차원의 비제도권 한국어 프로그램의 도입과 개설을 주장한다.

새천년 한민족의 역할을 필자는 1. 문화국가 건설 2. 교육국가 건설 3. 지역중심 공동체 변화 4. 한민족간의 네트워크 형성 5. 국제화 이렇게 다섯 가지의 항목으로 분류하여 정리하였다. 새천년 한민족이 나아갈 방향으로는 앞으로 더욱더 다원화되는 사회에서 삶의 방식과 여러 가능성을 개척해 가는 개방적 세계관으로 그 역할을 다해야 한다. 그리고 문화국가 건설과 교육국가 건설이라는 명제를 통하여 과학기술의 진흥과 창의력 계발에 중점을 둔 교육개혁이야말로 새천년에 한국과 한민족의 경쟁력제고를 위해서 가장 시급히 진행시켜나가야 할 과제인 것이다. 또한 지역중심 공동체 변화와 한민족간의 네트워크 형성을 통하여 협동정신이라는 선인들의 지혜를 이어받고 인간을 존중하고 이웃과 함께 살아가는 공동체 의식을 함양하여 조화로운 질서와 협동을 추구하고 평화를 선도하는 민족의 정기를 세계만방에 보여 주여야 하겠다. 이와 같은 중단 없는 노력을 통하여 새천년 한민족은 풍요롭고 건강한 국가건설은 물론이고 문화수준과 교육수준이 높은 민족으로 후생과 환경, 치안, 의료 등 질 높은 사회 안전이 보장된 사회건설의 지향으로 세계에서의 한민족의 역할을 다할 수 있어야 하겠다.