외국인 학습자를 위한 한국어 문화어휘 선정 연구

Abstract

In this study, we have constructed a basic data through previous studies on Korean culture vocabulary and newly extracted a basic list of cultural vocabulary for Korean language education. In cultural education, initiating education of cultural vocabulary prior to other methods is the most basic and useful method in cultural vocabulary education. In other words, it is effective in cultural education to first teach the basic vocabulary followed by sentence construction and implying expressions. Therefore, teaching Korean culture and culture vocabulary in Korean language education can help amicable communication by the foreign learners. This study utilized the meta and corpus analysis methods to extract the vocabulary list. The vocabulary lists were obtained from the previous studies, examined and compared for redundancy between the texts and appearance frequency within the reference corpus to acquire the final 241 words. Therefore, this study was able to assess the feasibility and applicability through multiple assessment and extraction steps. Since the matter of 'what must be taught' in culture education is not compulsory, the vocabulary list can be different according to the scholars or educational environment. However, this study aims to provide a reference or outline for a basic culture vocabulary list. Therefore, limited objectivity in the selection process of the cultural vocabulary exists. It is regrettable that the selected list was not verified by a group of scholars or experts after analyzing for the text redundancy.