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The Trends of Non-Native Researchers in Korean Language Education Research

  • The Journal of General Education
  • 2019, (9), pp.225~249
  • DOI : 10.24173/jge.2019.06.9.8
  • Publisher : Da Vinci Mirae Institute of General Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education > Field of Education > General Education
  • Received : June 7, 2019
  • Accepted : June 24, 2019
  • Published : June 30, 2019

Kim Hyunjung 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to examine trends in Korean language education research published by non-native researchers over the past five years. Four major journals related to Korean language education that were in print between 2014 and 2018 were surveyed to produce a list of 84 papers by 94 non-native researchers. First, an analysis of the type of research participation found that non-native researchers were more likely to be co-authors than Korean researchers. Next, a review of the existing research was used to produce an analytical framework for ascertaining trends in research by non-native researchers. The papers were analyzed twice, one time to classify them according to topic and a second time to classify them according to purpose. Since the purpose of this paper is ascertaining trends in research by non-native researchers, it took into account not only the number of papers but also the number of authors. When non-native research papers were classified by topic, 53 out of 83 papers (63.10%) were on the topic of “Korean language education (content).” This represented 57 out of 94 (60.64%) total authors. The most common subtopic under “Korean language education (content)” was “pronunciation,” followed by “pragmatics” and “contrastive analysis.” This is similar to the results of previous analyses of graduate theses and journal articles in Korean language education over the past decade, which have found that the most common research topics were “Korean language education (content),” “Korean language (teaching and learning),” and “Korean language education (general).” This paper did find, however, that the predominant topic in journal articles by non-native researchers is “Korean language education (content).” The most common subtopic of non-native research papers was pronunciation and intonation, whereas this was the sixth most common topic in the existing literature overall. The conclusion is that trends in Korean language education research by non-native researchers (especially in journal articles) are different from trends in Korean language education research as a whole. This paper's analysis of research purpose found that the most common purpose was “educational research” (34.04%), with almost the same percentage reported for “acquisition and errors” (32.98%), The purpose of “contrastive analysis” was reported in 22.34% of cases, significantly less than “educational research” or “acquisition and errors.” Compared to an earlier study about trends in Korean language education in graduate theses by Chinese-speaking students in which “contrastive analysis” accounted for the purpose of well over half the theses (60.71%), we can conclude that non-native researchers are using journal articles to carry out research that is more practical and applicable to education.

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