The purpose of this study is to present a diagnostic evaluation tool that can more accurately determine the academic performance level in Korean language proficiency of foreign undergraduate students studying at domestic universities. The diagnostic evaluation diagnoses the academic Korean language proficiency of foreign undergraduates, and provides the diagnosis results to foreign undergraduates, professors, and university institutions so that teaching activities can be conducted efficiently. In this study, it was considered that the ‘Basic Academic Ability Diagnostic Test for the Korean Language Subject' was suitable as a test tool for diagnosing to diagnose the academic achievment of foreign undergraduates. This diagnostic test is a diagnostic tool designed for Korean students in Korea, and it not only continuously verifies its reliability and validity, but also includes background knowledge that Korean university students in Korea are basically acquiring. To prove that the 'Basic Academic Ability Diagnostic Test' is suitable as a diagnostic evaluation tool for foreign undergraduates, the correlation with the Korean language achievement evaluation was analyzed. The correlation between diagnostic evaluation and other items showed a significantly positive correlation. When the diagnostic evaluation score was good, the pre-test and post-test scores of Korean language proficiency, and the TOPIC level was also high. This result proves that the basic academic ability diagnostic test tool is very suitable as a diagnostic evaluation tool for foreign undergraduate students. Also, the analysis result of the pre- and post-tests and the TOPIK test showed a very significant and strong positive correlation with the post-test, and the higher the TOPIK grade, the higher the score of the pre‐test.

This study aims to study factors affecting level of Korean language proficiency for Korean Missionaries' Kids (MK) dwelling in Turkey. 45 Korean MKs were asked to answer three different questionnaires designated to investigate Korean language proficiency, cultural identity and demographic background. This study adopts altered TOPIK for the evaluation of Korean language proficiency, and focuses on finding out the relationship of Korean proficiency with sexuality, age, age at immigration to Turkey, years of Korean study, self-recognition of cultural identity, cultural identity of Korea, and cultural identity of Turkey. The SPSS for windows 17was used for the statistical analysis.Ethnic Identity Scale was measured with the KAEIS that was developed by Ahn(1999) and Proficiency Test that was selected by TOPIK (Test of Proficiency in Korea) session 19, 20. Cronbach  for cultural identity of Korea was 0.823 and Cronbach  for cultural identity of Turkey was 0.691. Internal consistency reliability for Korean proficiency test was 0.891. The result shows that cultural identity of Korea and age at immigration to Turkey have significant relationship with level of Korean proficiency, especially age at immigration to Turkey has more significant relationship with the proficiency. The result from this study helps to recognize factors affecting level of Korean language proficiency. Especially, the Korean proficiency of MKs who live in Turkey has a close relationship with Korean cultural identity.These facts indicate that not only the Korean education are required to effectively increase the korean education itself, but also developing the pride of being Korean are needed to be followed up as well.

The present study was designed to investigate Korean EFL college learners' language development across writing proficiency levels in the ir written productions. For the evaluation of their language development, 18 subsets of the syntactic complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) were used. 86 uni vers ity students participated in the study and wrote narrat ive essays about an assigned topic by using the Criterion®. The writing samples were scored by e-rater® and divided into three different proficiency levels to compare language development among groups. Then their essays were analyzed by us ing L2 Sy ntactical Complexity Analyzel: The findings reveal significant differences in 15 out of 18 measures of CAF and language learners' linguistic developmental patterns across their writing proficiency levels. The results indicate that there are di stinctive features regarding CAF among the three groups. With respect to fluency and accuracy, levels I and 2 showed a similar language developmental pattern, and level 3 was much higher than those groups. In terms of syntactic compl exity, levels 2 and 3 presented a similar developmental pattern, and level 1 was much lower than those groups in general. This study shows the predictive potential of CAF across writing proticiency levels of language learners.

본 연구의 목적은 외국인 유학생들의 한국어 능력 부족에 따른 대학원 생활 경험을 심층적으로 탐색해 보는 데에 있다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 내러티브 탐구 방법을 사용하여 8명의 외국인 대학원생들이 한국어 능력이 부족함에 따라 대학원 생활 경험이 어떻게 달라졌는가를 그들의 목소리로 이끌어 내고자 하였다. 자료 분석은 전체 이야기의 배경 안에서 현장 텍스트를 분석하는 내러티브 탐구 방법의 특징을 살려서 영역 분석과 분류 분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 그들이 공통적으로 경험한 것은 한국어 능력 부족으로 인한 학업의 어려움, 한국어와 영어 혼용은 또 하나의 걸림돌, 한국어능력시험은 시험을 위한 시험, 언어연수 과정은 한국어 능력을 키우기 위한 징검다리와 같이 4가지로 분류할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 밝혀진 결과는 앞으로 한국에서 유학하게 될 외국인 대학원생들에게 도움을 줄 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 외국인 대학원생 관리와 지원에도 유용할 것이며 이후의 유학생 유치를 위한 전략을 수립하는 데에도 도움이 될 것이다.

본 연구는 대부분의 기존연구가 거의 하지 않았던, 한국어를 실제 학습하고 있는 전국차원의 다문화가족 460여 명을 대상으로 실제 분석한 결과, 다문화가족들의 기초 학습 변인, 다문화가족들이 느끼는 한국어교육에 있어 다문화교육의 성격에 대한 인식, 다문화가족들의 한국어 능력과 그 중요성에 대한 학습자 인식 변인들에서 많은 차이가 나타났다. 실증적인 조사 분석 결과 좀 더 효과적인 한국어교육을 위해서는 학습 수요자인 다문화가족들의 학력 등의 기초 학습배경과 다문화와 한국어 능력에 대한 학습자의 인식 변인들에 따라 한국어 각 영역에서의 교재수준을 조절하여야 하며, 한국어의 다문화교육 차원의 인식과 한국어 학습영역의 난이도 등에 따라서 알맞은 한국어 강의 교재 선택, 수업시간 조정, 수강 반 편성 등을 효율적으로 실시하여야 한다.