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Ko, Kyung-sook․Lee, So-Hyun 2010. The Practice of Korean Language Course Development for Exchange Students-Focusing on Needs Analysis of Beginners. The Language and Culture 6-1: 1-26. In the recent few years, the number of Korean language learners for academic purpose has been sharply increased. A group of the learners can be foreign exchange students who take academic courses and learn Korean language at the university. However, few researches about the exchange students can be found. The aim of this study is to discuss the characteristics of the beginning exchange students and to eventually design a learner-centered Korean language curriculum for the exchange students based on the results of needs analysis. The needs analysis has been conducted by interviews and a questionnaire. The results show that the exchange students set their learning goals as survival Korean. They would like to learn not only Korean language but also Korean culture, society and economy in class even if their Korean language is in the beginning level. Considering the results and educational settings, the integrated syllabus, especially functional-situational syllabus, has been selected. The contents include 1) reading and writing Hangul, 2) greeting and introducing, 3) conversation with friends, 4) ordering meals at restaurants, 5) buying goods, and 6) asking for locations and directions and using public transportations. Cultural items related to each function or situation are also covered under the conditions of Korean-English bilingual class. (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies․The Catholic University of Korea)

Kim, Youngsoon and Yun, Hee-jin. 2010. The Culture Education Method with Storytelling for the Multi-cultural Citizenship, The Language and Culture 6-1: 27-46. The purpose of this study is to show the cultural education method for multi-cultural citizenship using storytelling of native culture. As the expansion of the multi-culture society, interest in multi-cultural citizenship education has been rising. It is important that understanding one's own culture with first priority in order to understanding other culture under condition of multicultural society. Establishing the identity of own's culture is played an crucial role in understanding other culture. Then this study proposes the native culture storytelling as method of understanding own's culture. This storytelling can provide interesting education to learners for the native culture. Furthermore, through the storytelling learners would expect their life naturally achieving their own culture. It is seems to be understanding other culture intersubjective critically in basis of understanding their culture. This will expect enhancing the multicultural citizenship.(Inha University)

Kim, Jae Wook. 2010. A Study on Curriculum Development in Department of Korean Education in Domestic Universities. The Language and Culture 6-1: 47-67 The focus of this study is to develop Korean language course as a foreign language for the department of the Korean language education. Most of existing curriculum of the department is based on the examples of the Korean language Act of 2005. However the Act can not be applied to undergraduate studies because it's focused on the curriculum for graduate schools and only presenting mandatory subjects for the teaching certificate of Korean language. Supplementing the Act, it is necessary to develop the curriculum considering not only domestic Korean language courses but also foreign courses. To develop Korean language education course for undergraduate schools, this study analyzes 17 domestic courses and 20 Japanese courses and 29 Chinese ones, where the demand for Korean language eduction is high, and presents basic principles regarding designing Korean education curriculum and the actual curriculum for the department. Courses for the 1st, 2nd, and 5th areas of the domestic curriculum is correspondent to the mandatory credit required by Korean language Act, but the 3rd, which is the essential part of Korean education, is 10% less than the Act rules, and the 4th course is excessing the regulation of the Act by 16%. This is due to the fact that the existing courses are only presenting courses following basic requirements of the Act and not developing new courses which can open up new opportunity to the students. Professors for the anticipated courses are also severely lacking. While domestic courses are focusing on Korean linguistics and language educations following the frame of the Act, Japanese courses emphasize comparative linguistics and improving language skill itself and Chinese courses are paying attention to improving language skill and Korean linguistics. Based on the analyze, it is concluded that curriculums of Korean education department need to link each area of the Korean linguistics regarding Korean as a 'language' not as the 'mother tongue' This study also presents newly designed Korean education courses to extend the area of the study for various purposes and targets. It also suggests to extend and specialize Korean education practice. (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Jinzhongshi. 2010. A Comparative Analysis of the Object sentences Word Order in Chinese and Korean. The Language and Culture 6-1: 69-87. According to this thesis, the errors made in the translation of Chinese object sentences mainly due to the differences between the word order of Chinese and Korean object sentences. Thus, the present paper contrasted the word order of Chinese and Korean object sentences in respect of syntax, semantics and information structure. In the aspect of syntax, Korean object sentences were divided into prototype object sentences and shift object sentences, and they were contrasted with their Chinese equivalent structures: predicate-object clauses and Ba-sentences. As was viewed from the aspect of semantics, the Animacy theory was adopted to analyze how the animacy of object influenced the word order of Chinese and Korean object sentences. In respect of information structure, the differences of expressing the new information and the old one between Chinese and Korean object sentences were analyzed in detail.(Shanghai International Studies University)

Kim, Hoyoen. 2010. Point of View on Korean Culture of Food Experienced by Western People. The language and Culture 6-1: 89-108. The purpose of this study is to investigate how western people in the Korean of the time of enlightenment saw Korean culture of food and how the archetype Korean culture is deducted through others' view. Western people in the time of enlightenment visited Korea with various purposes, recording their experiences. Their descriptions on Korean food culture may serve as a standard to see the Korean people because those are from direct experience through five senses. The images of Korean food culture that the western people intensely felt are expressed as abundant size of meals, drinking binge, vegetable diet without meat, and pungent smells. These views are of orientalism and contain underestimation of Korea, but share views that see Korea with purity from the aspect of interculturalism, a view that resulted not only from direct experience on Korean food but from superficial experience, as well as affection on Korea. The point of view of these others on Korean culture of food was critically accepted through personal experiences one century after, continuing by being received as a model of well-being food and being modified to be another aspect. This changes is the result not from superficial view on Korean food that had been simply accepted but from the awareness on the archetype called "sik-yak-dong-won," a concept that food and medicine are identical. (Dankook Univ. Institute of Oriental Studies) Keywords: Korean food, the time of enlightenment, Western people, Interculturalism, Kimchi, Orientalism, Gluttony, Drinking binge

Moon, Keum-hyun. 2010. The Present Condition and Challenges of Korean Vocabulary Education. The Language and Culture 6-1: 109-135. The purpose of this paper is to examine the present condition and challenges of Korean vocabulary education. This study considers the status of the Korean vocabulary education in five aspects: Korean textbooks compilation, the construction of a database and the compilation of the dictionary, the contents and teaching methods, the process of acquiring Korean language teacher's licence, and the vocabulary test of the Korean Proficiency Test(KPT). First, it needs the construction of a general database to develop the Korean vocabulary education and then based on these data, the Korean textbooks will be compiled. Second, the studies of the Korean vocabulary education need to be more detailed, systematic, and comprehensive. Third, it is necessary to organize the Korean vocabulary teaching methods systematically. Finally, the studies of the Korean vocabulary education will have to be aimed at learners who speak many different languages. (Sookmyung Women's University)

Min, Kyungmo. 2010. A Study of Corpus Design for KAP Teaching. The Language and Culture 6-1: 137-156. In this study, I will look at data gathering methods in data-based studies for KAP and Corpus Development Activities for EAP in overseas, and then a design and criteria of corpus for KAP teaching is discussed in detail. a corpus criteria to propose in this study is as follows. 1) The corpus is to be multi-purposeful. 2) It is to be designed so that it is used to study a gap between registers in addition to study a characteristic of a specific register. 3) It is to be a principled collection of electronic texts. 4) It is to be dynamic and genre-independent so that additional data gathering is possible. 5) The depth and width of data sampling reflects a diversity of registers and a relative availability and importance of usage situation. The draft plan of a corpus design and corpus criteria like this implies the conversion of subjects from academic language into university Language, as well as the conversion of directions from in-register into inter-register. (Keimyung University)

Bang Seong-won. 2010. The Relationship of Studies in Korean Grammar and Korean Grammar Education for Foreigners. The Language and Culture 6-1: 157-181. The purpose of this study is to define the academic relationship of studies in Korean grammar and Korean grammar education for foreigners, and suggest a virtuous-cycle research direction for both. In the main body, in order to discuss the relevance of Korean grammar and Korean grammar education, the discussion is unfolded in the following order. In chapter 2, the process of deriving educational grammar from academic grammar, and it is shown that the areas of Korean grammar and Korean grammar education can interact with each other. In chapter 3, the research subject is analyzed with focus on research materials of Korean grammar education. Through this analysis, it is shown that there have been researches in Korean grammar education that are highly relevant to Korean grammar research, and the trend of researches for each subject is explored. Furthermore, in order to suggest a virtuous-cycle research direction for both academic areas, in chapter 4, how Korean grammar studies positively influences which areas of Korean grammar education is observed. In chapter 5, based on the critical mind of Korean grammar education questioning Korean grammar studies, the direction in which both academic areas can interactively develop is suggested. (Kyunghee Cyber University)

Hyun-Ae Yun & Hyoun-Hwa Kang. 2010. A Study on a syntactic construction of passive verbs for Korean education : focused on corpus analysis of “보이다” “보여지다”(be seen). The Language and Culture 6-1: 183-203. This paper aims to seek the lists of passive construction as a pattern expression and how to teach these passive construction effectively : “보이다” “보여지다”(be seen). This paper was based on corpus analysis. First, we analyzed the syntactic constructions of two passive verbs. In this study, we considered a passive verb as a separate element, not as structural transformation of an active sentence. Second, we proposed an effective teaching contents of two types of passive verbs. We hope that this study will be used to build a part of Korean educational grammar.(Yonsei University)

Lee, Gil-Won & Yoon, Min-Chul. 2010. A study on Using Culture-specific Humor in Communicative KFL Education. The Language and Culture 6-1: 205-227. The proficiency-levels of KFL learners in general have improved to a high degree as a result of nationwide efforts for revitalizing the language education. At present, the development of Korean language programs has come to such a stage where a full-scale set of researches should be done on the make-up of class contents and pedagogical approaches for the intermediate and advanced learners. For this end, using humor as concrete contents of education is suggested in the present paper. Humor can be used for learning natural expressions unique to Korean since it, as a language-& culture-specific element, is frequently used as a composite means of representing the ideological, emotional, historical, and cultural characteristics of the Korean people. Therefore, diverse cultural and historical subject matters ranging from the genre of literature or art to that of everyday expressions can well fit into the relevant contents of KFL teaching. Making use of the humor in Korean education as a means of communication will satisfy various learning needs of the language learners, broaden their background knowledge on the Korean culture, and improve their linguistic fluency. All of these aspects, I believe, will eventually lead to the enhancement of the learners' overall L2 communicative competence. (Dong-A UniversityㆍPusan University)

Ha, Chae-Hyun & Jung, Su-Yeun. 2010. Case Study about Understanding of the Korean novel and Korean film -Focused on the Korean Advanced learners. The language and Culture 6-1: 229-257. This paper aims to examine how the characteristics of novel and movie as media influence advanced level Korean learners' understanding of them. Based on the hypothesis that media difference will affect advanced level Korean learners' understanding of works, Korean novel class and Korean movie class were taught to enhance learners' understanding of novel and movie in Korean. Theme of novel and movie was 'love' and the text for novel was <Shower>(Sonagi) and movie, <Classic>. Love is universal, common and familiar topic that learners can easily approach and feel sympathy. Interpretation from the aspects of culture theory that learners can perceive advanced level sentences and traditional Korean culture and emotion with novel and understand refined sensibility, communication language usage, and popular culture with movie is possible, too. However, this paper intends to single out the point of discrimination in understanding novel and movie, concentrating on the aspects of Korean literature education for advanced level Korean learners. It is to give implications about the method of proper novel education and movie education in Korean literature education, urgently required by advanced Korean learners. As one area of studying the actual condition of genre modifications, this research would be the basic study on the understanding of Korean literary works for advanced Korean learners. Korean movie class was used as a supplementary means for learners to understand the story more easily, however, this practice did not seem to be continued any more. It is because that the development of visual culture and understanding of cinema forced to put moving-image education and media education in the field of education. Paying attention to it, this paper abrogated the attitude of regarding visual media as supplementary material and studied on the discriminating point of understanding novel and movie as the basic research to search for the method of novel and movie education. (Far East University)

Han, Song Hwa, 2010. A study on Korean simile understanding of Korean learners. The Language and Culture 6-1: 259-284. The purpose of this article is to present research findings on the degree of understanding Korean simile according to vehicle or ground meaning of simile, foreign learner's mother tongue and their Korean proficiency. Questionnaire was formulated consisting of sentences of ten similes. Subjects were asked to provide ground meanings, connotations of the given similes, and to grade the degree of difficulty they encountered in understanding. Foreign learners understand similes more correctly when vehicle(noun) has general concept than Korean cultural concept. And they understand more correctly when ground meaning of simile present sensitive meaning i.e. color, size, shape or taste etc. than emotion meaning i.e. valuation, attitude or personality etc. Also they may misunderstand the similes that are including vehicle having two or more properties. The degree of correct understanding are different upon정 foreign learner's mother tongue. Chinese leaners understand similes more correctly than Japanese or western learners.(Yonsei University)

Heo, Yong. 2010. A Linguistic Approach to the Korean Language Education as a Foreign Language. The Language and Culture 6-1: 285-307. This paper aims to offer the direction in which Korean language education, based on Korean linguistics and general linguistics, should strive to achieve. It is important to recognize the markedness of the language in question based on universality or universal grammar and linguistic typology. We can approach universality from two points of view. The first is the typological universal approach based on Greenberg and the second is the universal grammar approach based on Chomsky. While these two approaches may differ in some aspects, they both search for common aspects of all languages. In sum, they are in agreement in the fact that they both seek to find absolute universality and universal tendencies. Linguistic typology can also be approached from this perspective. Hence, linguistic typology is important to Korean language teachers. This paper discusses phonetics and phonology, syntactic aspects of the Korean language based on universality, parameters and typology. (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Hong, Sunhi. 2010. Gender issue and the new female Potential in the Korean Cinderella Story ｢Konggyu Potgyu｣. The Language and Culture 6-1: 309-329. The fairy tale, which had been handed down orally for a long time, was supposed to be chosen and written according to the social, historical, and spiritual demands of modernization or industrialization. So were the woman figures in the fairy tale. It is also rational that the instinctive and natural mother be inferior to that of the ‘better’ mother reborn by logos and the former be suppressed, repressed and oppressed by the latter. The purpose of this article is to recover the lost or forgotten oral potential of written fairy tale and to reconstruct the mother and the sexuality in the context of 21st century, when the topics related to life, ecology and nature are in particular issued. According to the reconstructed ‘new’ mother the ‘original’ mother should be the ‘great’ Mother and the body of woman is to be functional both to give birth and to express her sexuality itself. Riding on woman’s movement to new era it is also possible for the fairy tale to get out of the closed structure of printed text and to enter the open structure of hypertext.(Keimyung University)