A Study on Test-takers&#039; Awareness and Attitude about TOPIK Writing (TOPIK 수험자의 쓰기 영역에 대한 인식과 태도 연구)

Guo, Jun Hua (곽준화)

doi:10.14353/sjk.2018.26.1.03

A Study on Test-takers' Awareness and Attitude about TOPIK Writing

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
Abbr : 사회언어학
2018, 26(1), pp.61-81
DOI : 10.14353/sjk.2018.26.1.03
Publisher : The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
Research Area : Humanities > Linguistics

Guo, Jun Hua ¹

¹배재대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purposes of this study are to investigate how TOPIK students perceive the writing area and analyze it from the point of critical assessment, and to suggest improvement directions of TOPIK writing assessment and Korean writing education. For this, 80 test-takers were conducted a questionnaire survey, and 20 of them were interviewed to elicit their thoughts, attitudes, perceptions about the TOPIK writing. As a result of analysis, the power of high - stakes testings such as TOPIK has a great influence on learners. TOPIK test-takers had difficulty and great anxiety about writing. They thought that to study for TOPIK writing is only for the sake of examination and that extra study was needed to improve their actual writing ability. Although the test-takers showed a willingness to write well in Korean, they had a negative attitude about studying writing. To solve this problem, it is necessary to solve problems of difficulty level in writing assessment such as ambiguous assessment criteria. In addition, it is also need to pay attention to the phenomenon of ‘test-oriented learning’ in Korean writing education, and to study the motivation of interest which attracts Korean learners' attention and let them have a positive attitude about writing.

KEYWORDS

TOPIK writing, critical assessment view, Korean Writing assessment, Korean writing education, test-takers of TOPIK, test-takers' awareness

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