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A Study on Imitative Poetry Writing Class to Improve Metaphorical Expressions among Korean Language Learners

  • 인문논총
  • 2018, 46(), pp.45-72
  • DOI : 10.33638/JHS.46.3
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : April 30, 2018
  • Accepted : June 7, 2018
  • Published : June 30, 2018

Gumsuk kim 1

1상지대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to propose an imitative poetry writing class as a way to improve metaphorical expressions among Korean language learners and discuss its effect based on actual class. For advanced level learners, the writing education must enable them to acquire sophisticated and creative expressions. Therefore, this study designed an imitative poetry writing class that can be applied to Korean writing class and proposed an instruction model that consists of original text reading and imitative poetry writing. The most important consideration in this model is to ensure sufficient understanding of the original text based on discussions and dialogues between instructor and learners and between learners and to lead to imitative poetry writing subsequently. This study analyzed a case of an actual class to which the proposed model was applied. In the class, learners read three pieces of original text and understood them by forming various discussions and dialogues. And then, by using metaphorical expressions related to a poem, they wrote an imitative poem. The imitative poems written by the learners showed four types of metaphorical expressions: first, expressions that copied those found in the original text; second, direct use of idiomatic expressions based on basic metaphors; third, expansion or sophistication of basic metaphors; and, fourth, creation of new metaphors. Most learners mostly used the third type of expressions while some progressed to the fourth type. This demonstrates that practicing creative and metaphorical expressions through imitative poetry writing was relatively successful. In other words, imitative poetry writing had educational effects on improving linguistic expressions and creative expressions among learners.

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