한·일 중학교 국어과 듣기·말하기 영역 교육과정 및 교과서 비교 연구

Abstract

This age is called as the era of internationalization and globalization. That's because the regional and nationalistic conservative trend has shifted to that of considering global and open national interests. This trend has also effects on education, consequently resulting in various comparative studies on other countries' educational system, curriculum, and the contents of texts to improve those of their own. Japan is one of the countries which have the closest relationships with our country, Korea, historically and geographically and use one language. And it is also within the same Chinese-character culture. In this respect it can be meaningful to conduct researches on the curriculum of both countries' language education and the comparative study on texts. Effective communication is not only necessary for good social life but also in itself actions of using a language. Therefore to improve students' ability in using a language effectively can be one of the most important objectives the language education aims at. Listening and speaking among the four skill domains, listening speaking, reading and writing, have to be considered of much importance in the light of the fact that they are based on sounds of a language and mainly used as ways of communication in real life. In addition, as people in modern society tend to get more information through a variety of mass media, listening and speaking grow more important. As result we need to educate students more systematically in listening and speaking. Accordingly this study is designed to search for improvements in teaching students how to listen and speak in our language class by comparing listening and speaking domains which are dealt with in the secondary education curriculum and the structure of texts of both Korea and Japan. To complement the study, general comparative analysis on the seventh educational curriculum, diagnosis on what the real problems are in the real classroom through a survey, and some suggestions for improvements are included. This study can be summed up as follows: 1. The objective of language education in Korea is too specific. It needs to be changed into more comprehensive objective . 2. Speaking and listening education in Korea is not practiced inefficiently because they divided the two domains from each other even though the domains are closely related. It is needed to combine the two domains. Also it is needed for them to be combined with reading and speaking. 3. Compared to the Japanese texts, the allotment of units and the four skill domains in Korean ones lacks the hierarchy and system. 4. Korean texts have too much contents, and as a consequence the teaching contents which are supposed to have balance in their nature, principle, and contents , are more theory and principle-oriented and fall a little short of practicality-oriented features. So it is recommendable to reduce the amount of text contents so that more teaching time can be poured into practical activities. 5. The contents of curriculum and objectives of units are not naturally related to the class activities. 6. Training courses to help teachers to get expertise should be developed and studies on how to teach listening and speaking effectively and systematically should be made. For this purpose, the present training courses for teachers should strengthened. Also it is necessary to make some systems to practice performance assessments and include the results in the students grades.