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Korean vocabulary education through Korean language study book from the late 19th to early 20th century : Focusing on Korean language study books for English-speaking learners

  • DONAM OHMUNHAK
  • Abbr : 돈암
  • 2020, 38(), pp.85~106
  • DOI : 10.17056/donam.2020.38..85
  • Publisher : The Donam Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature
  • Received : November 26, 2020
  • Accepted : December 28, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

Park, Sae Am 1

1한성대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to examine Korean vocabulary education as a part of the history of early Korean education through analysis of Korean language study books for English-speaking learners published in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The contents of vocabulary education in the Korean language study books published during this period were reviewed in terms of vocabulary presentation and vocabulary practice. As a result, there were three types of vocabulary presentation methods that appeared in Korean study books during this period: a method of presenting meaning through a range of sentences or vocabulary, a method of presenting information on the origin and form of a vocabulary, and a method of presenting vocabulary lists by subject and purpose. Vocabulary practice methods rarely appear in Korean language study books during this period, so it could be seen that in Korean language education during this period, ‘vocabulary’ was perceived as an object that the learners themselves had to learn rather than as an object of explicit education. However, through a list of vocabulary by subject in Underwood’s Everyday Korean (1921) or specific instructions for vocabulary learning in Sauer’s Korean for Beginners (1925), Korean language education from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century is systematic and institutional in personal learning. As education changes, vocabulary can be confirmed as an example of a shift in perception from an object to be learned individually to an object of education that requires systematic management and learning.

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