Literature Education Status in Korean Language Education
Global perspective of Korea has been continuously enhanced, and accordingly, the number of foreign students who are interested in and try to study Korean language are increasing, too. In addition, recently the purpose of studying the Korean language is deepening from just getting employment or college preparation to interest about Korea and its culture.Korean language education as a foreign language should be developed for correct understanding and use in social & cultural context based on the language education for communication. One way of satisfying these Korean language educational target is to utilize literary works.But, even with the various possibilities of utilizing literary works in Korean language education, the attempts to utilize literary works is insufficient in actual education fields and in teaching material. Also, the utilizing material are in limited state.According to the survey result of literature education status, activity and attempt to utilize literary works in Korean language education as a foreign language is quite insufficient and there is no distinctive standard in selecting the works. In addition, most education is performed at above middle level, and it consists of passive literature utilizing methods such as vocabulary, grammar, expressional study, comprehension, etc. Also, it is difficult to give lessons because included literature's genre are skewed to poems for modern literature and fairy tales for classical literature, and because the study about teachers' manual or teaching instruction are insufficient.Therefore, to solve these problems, it is required to include various literary works based on the students' requirement survey results, to present integrated utilizing method and subject activities so that all language education functions such as reading, listening, speaking and writing can be studied, and to actively utilize auxiliary textbooks. Also primarily, it is required to establish standard to select adequate literary works, and to enable the use of literary works by grade from the selected list of works based on the standard. In addition, it is required to provide class with the goal of understanding the literary work itself as well as language education and culture education through literature text.