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The Effects of Teaching Chinese Letters through the Analysis of Korean-textbooks on Improving Reading Comprehension

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ABSTRACT

This study is to teach Chinese letters of each unit through the analysis of Korean-textbooks, and to verify the effects on improving reading comprehension. First, the topic and the method of the study was planed through the data collection and consideration to the precedent studies and instruction Chinese letters and words were selected through the analysis of the middle school textbooks which are for second-grade to third-grade students. At consolidation stage of each lesson, learners were made to participate in the writing short-sentence activity using the presenting Chinese letters and words and they were allowed to use the Chinese-Korean and Korean dictionaries. The before and after change of the study was investigated through the Paired T-test for verifying the statistic meaningfulness of the distinction in average by pairing subordinate variables of total test for reading comprehension. The result showed the significant improvements in reading comprehension of the boy and girl students altogether. Especially the boy students who were much lower than the girl students before the study showed the reading comprehension attainments to the similar level to the girl students after the study. In conclusion, teaching Chinese letters and words had a positive effect on learners’ reading comprehension and it was necessary to design and apply the various teaching programs to enhance the students’ ability of Chinese letters and words.

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