The purpose of this study is to design an instructional model based on CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) theory for effective language learning. The study findings reveal the following three points. First, context-oriented foreign language education is possible, if we have well-edited authentic materials that match the level of the students, and implement the relevant materials as classroom activities that covered 4C (Content, Cognition, Communication, Culture) through sophisticated placement of content-language integration methods. Second, changes in evaluation methods can affect the studying style of learners. Since the process of output can only be actively utilized if the input is repeated, if we provide an desirable evaluation method so that the repetition process can focus on acquiring meaningful language information, this will help learners make more active use of the target language. Third, foreign language education could expand learners’ thinking skills. Content-language integrated learning is sufficient to help students to understand other cultures and compare/analyze the educational contents based on respect for cultural diversity. Through this all learning activities based on CLIL theory, language learners can also develop their critical thinking skills.

The estimated figure for the total number of Japanese language learners worldwide is 2,979,820, according to The Japan Foundation’s 2006 survey on overseas Japanese language institutions. The global trend toward the increasing popularity of the Japanese language is also apparent in Australia, where the number of Japanese language learners, institutions, and teachers is on the rise. Against this backdrop, this article aims to provide a brief overview of the status of Japanese language education in Australia, and to examine Japanese language learners’ attitudes and perceptions toward Japanese as their second language. To that end, the study explores the ways in which they receive information about Japan, and how images of Japan and the Japanese language vary among those learners with different personal interests about Japan. Based on the findings on attitudes and perceptions toward Japanese, this article also takes the chance to delve into goals in learning Japanese as a second language in Australia.

The study focuses on analyzing the situation how 1) to precede a sentence, 2) to structure the dialogue, and 3) to acquire conversation frame by the learners. Furthermore, the purpose of this study is to examine whether common discourse errors exist on the way of structuring the dialogue and if they exist, the tendency of errors comes from universality and individuality. The result of this study is to show the tendency of errors in order; connection investigations, surplus, style, tense, the point of view, defect, conjunction, direction, and sequence. Through this study, it is proved that essential language factors mentioned in the discourse structure are required on developing writing skills. Particularly, More than half of learners shows the common errors in the connection investigations, ellipsis, tense, style, conjunction, the point of view, addition. As a result, those language factors should be set up as essential language factors to be trained.

교수자는 학습자 모국어의 음운현상들을 제대로 알고 있어야 학습자의 모국어와 학습 목표 언어 사이의 간섭 현상을 파악해서 올바르게 교육 할수 있다. 교수자가 학습자의 모국어와 학습 목표 언어의 차이점에 대해서 교수하지 않는다고 해도 음운현상을 교수하거나 오류를 고쳐줄 때 유용할 것이다. 이러한 견해를 근간으로 하여 본 연구에서는 낱 음절의 발음보다는 음운현상에 대해 관심을 두고자 한다. 이를 위해 중국어, 일본어, 한국어의 음운현상을 살펴보고 그 차이점에서 학습자들의 오류를 예측해보고 학습자들의 실제 한국어 발음을 녹음해서 한국어 음운현상의 오류를 살펴봄으로써 학습자들의 한국어 음운현상 사용에 대한 실태를 점검 할 것이다. 중국어와 일본어를 선택함은 세 언어에 비슷한 음운현상이 존재하기 때문이고, 현재 가장 많은 학습자가 한국어를 배우고 있기에 필요성이나 유용성 입장에서도 그 이유를 말할 수 있으리라 본다.