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In this study, Examine Chuzo MITSUCHI’s view of education. In addition, this study examines the characteristics of Japanese language education as a foreign language. The research method is to compare “MITSUCHI’s Japanese Grammar books(1906, Japan)” and “Nichigo Tokuhon(1909, Korea)”. MITSUCHI focused on the “sentence” rather than the “part of speech” that was emphasized in grammar education. The reason MITSUCHI focusedon “writing” was that he hoped that “grammatical education” would not only be a means to understand the structure of sentences, but would also lead to “reading and writing skills”. “MITSUCHI’s Japanese Grammar books(1906, Japan)” and “Nichigo Tokuhon(1909, Korea)” reflect MITSUCHI’s view of education, which focused on “sentences”. Therefore, it is composed mainly of relationship between subject and predicate. However, there is a fundamental difference with “MITSUCHI’s Japanese Grammar books(1906, Japan)” and “Nichigo Tokuhon(1909, Korea)”. “MITSUCHI’s Japanese Grammar books(1906, Japan)” is a book for Japanese language education studied by students whose native language is Japanese. “Nichigo Tokuhon(1909, Korea)” is a book for Japanese language education studied by students whose foreign language is Japanese. MITSUCHI’s developed a “sentence pattern” to resolve the difference and introduced it into “Nichigo Tokuhon(1909, Korea)”. Sentence pattern is a pattern of frequently used subjects, particles, and predicates. MITSUCHI’ is the first to develop sentence pattern in Japanese language education. Therefore, the introduction of MITSUCHI’ sentence pattern has significance in the education of Japanese as a foreign language.

This study aims to establish the basic sentence patterns of Korean so that foreign learners can study Korean more efficiently. It is required for foreign learners to apply the sentence patterns to the certain communicative situations instead of obtaining just linguistic knowledge. Therefore, the use of the sentence patterns should be suggested in forms that reveal syntactical characteristics of Korean faithfully. The basic sentence patterns here are presented as born structures which can be a part of every sentence and foreign learners can transform and expand the patterns according to their expressive intention. The research sets the fifteen basic sentence patterns in conformity with the word order, essential arguments and syntactical and semantical characteristics of the predicate. The sentence patterns are based on the natural word order of Korean and the number of their essential arguments. The essential arguments are suggested in forms which specify the function and meaning in essential elements of a sentence by a part of speech and a mark of case.