This paper's main purpose is to review research articles on language education with sociolinguistic approach, which have been published in The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea since 1993. It synthesizes the current trends of language education research with the approach that paves the way for future academic sociolinguistic accomplishments. The journal's research studies of language education have mostly focused on Korean and English education along with a handful of other languages. Approximately 150 research studies are categorized and reviewed with emphasis on themes, goals, and their pedagogical implications. As this review is primarily of the articles published in The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, the conclusion suggests that a number of scholars have consistently and persistently conducted meaningful research on language education over the past several decades with a variety of research questions, yielding significant academic achievements. This paper is limited in that it does not represent the whole of research trends of language education studies with sociolinguistic approaches in Korea. However, this synthetical review does provide a general perspective of the overall flow of language education studies from a sociolinguistic perspective.

The purpose of this study is to present the contents of ‘Korean politeness’, which can be used to learn ‘Korean as a Second Language’, from the perspective of ‘conversational performance’. To this end, first, the concept of Korean politeness was examined in two elements: ‘sociocultural norm consciousness’ and ‘conversational strategy of individual speech act’. A conversational performance model of Korean politeness was also investigated as a educational unit of politeness contents. This performance model is composed of ‘adjacency pair’ and based of ‘common ground’ including honorific and speech act requirements. In order to construct educational politeness contents for KSL learner, conversational scenes of the revised KSL textbook, Standard Korean for Elementary Schoolchild were then analysed. In conclusion, politeness contents of KSL textbook were revealed in three aspects: ‘practice of using honorific style’, ‘politeness routines’, ‘politeness expressions and strategies’. Based on the results of the analysis, the direction of politeness education for KSL learners in elementary school was finally proposed in both ‘speech act’ and ‘conversation type’ pragmatic education.

Son Hui-Youn 2014. The Meaning of Conversation as a Socio-cognitive Process of the Second Language Acquisition: Analyzing conversation type of microgenesis in the Sociocultural theory's point of view. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 22(1). This study aims to identify conversational phenomenon that shows socio-cognitive process of the second language acquisition. To this end, this study investigated major concepts in the ‘sociocultural theory’s point of view and descriptive methodology based on the ‘conversational analysis'. The analysis data of this study was transcribed by observing the conversations generated in the situation where four Korean language learners from Mongol performing story-making and, interview. Based on this analysis data, this study caught conversational scenes that show the second language development as ‘microgenesis’ phenomena and tried to find the theories of acquisition and conversation organization involved in these conversational scenes. As results of analysis, firstly, this study could see clinical conversation types of microgenetic development generated to complete story-making; secondly, this study could observe cooperative conversational phenomena of microgenetic development accompanied by conversational phenomena such as repair or metaenonciation during the course of interview.

The purpose of this study is to describe foreign students' Korean language pragmatic competence in relation to speech exchange and communicative strategy exposed in the process by which a communicative task was effectively completed. This study designed and applied ‘information-gab tasks' like ‘picture-description tasks' for the realization of ‘referential communication' in which two speakers give and take the explanation about a specific object in a state where neither of them mutually share adequate information about it. As a result of observing the dialog data elicited by the task, it was found that learners were arriving at the co-construction of ‘identification of referent' and ‘role-taking' in various communication modes. At this point, the introductory/intermediate learners had difficulty carrying out such an interactive component in performance of the task. Even the type of feedback varied between the introductory/intermediate learners and the advanced learners. The utterance clarifying the difference in the photos was generally not revealed in a verbal sequence. The linguistic form of ‘-in geot gatda(seem to)' was frequently used with the effect of assumptive judgment strategy.

This study aims to explicate characteristics of bilingualism among members from a Hwagyo(overseas Chinese) community who live in Seoul. For this purpose, this study used two research methods: One was to analyze an example of the conversation between two Hwagyo persons, and the other was to conduct a questionnaire-based survey with 21 Hwagyo persons including the two participating in the conversation. Using these two research methods integrated, this study was to show characteristics of bilingualism revealed individually by the Hwagyo speakers, and in addition, this study was also to investigate bilingualism and bilingual development among the members of the community they belong to. As a result of the analysis of the conversation, this study observed that the Hwagyo participants were creating ‘bilingual codes’ in their dialogue used routinely through borrowing or insertion of Chinese words and constructions, and used Korean-Chinese code-switching strategically. This study dealt with such bilingualism as a product of the ‘bilingual identity’ developed properly by the Hwagyo persons, and deepened understanding of the bilingual identity by showing through the survey the Hwagyo persons’ recognition of bilingual development, language choice, cultural identity, and language attitude.

본 연구는 원예활동이 남자 중학생의 스트레스와 학업동기에 미치는 영향에 대하여 알아보고자 경상북도 A중학교의 남자 중학생을 대상으로 2010년 9월 9일부터 12월 23일까지 매주 목요일 주 1회 총 12회 다양한 원예활동을 실시하였다. 원예활동 실시 전과 후, 스트레스 질문지의 하위항목 중 부모로부터 받는 스트레스 점수는 11.00점에서 8.80점으로, 교사로 받는 스트레스 점수는 17.00점에서 13.06점으로 각각 2.2점, 3.94점이 감소되어 P<0.05 수준에서 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 그리고 하위항목 학업으로부터 받는 스트레스는 18.93점에서 13.86으로, 주변 환경으로 부터 받는 스트레스는 17.00점에서 13.06점으로 각각 5.07점, 3.94점 감소되어 P<0.01 수준에서 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 전체 점수는 89.86점에서 71.40점으로 18.46점이 감소되었으며 P<0.01 수준에서 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 원예활동 실시 전과 후, 학업동기 하위항목 중 무동기는 45.40점에서 38.00점으로 7.4점이 낮아졌으며, 자율적 동기는 23.33점에서 26.33점으로 3점이 높아졌다. 두 하위항목 모두 P<0.01수준에서 유의하게 향상되었다. 원예활동 실시 후 대조군과 실험군 두 집단 간의 변화를 비교한 결과 스트레스 질문지의 경우, 가정으로부터 받는 스트레스는P<0.05 수준에서 유의한 차이가 나타났으며, 학업으로부터 받는 스트레스, 교사로부터 받는 스트레스, 주변 환경으로 받는 스트레스는 P<0.01 수준에서 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 학업동기 질문지의 경우, 무동기와 자율적 동기가 P<0.01수준에서 유의한 차이가 나타났다. 이상의 결과로부터 꽃장식과 식물 기르기의 원예활동이 남자 중학생의 스트레스 완화와 학업 동기 향상에 크게 영향을 미친다고 할 수 있다.