A study of Korean Education as a Foreign Language from the Linguistic and Cultural Factors's Point of View
Göksel Türközü
앙카라대
Korean Language Education Research Vol. 16 pp.7-38 (2003)
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to percuss the possibility to educate Korean culture in Turkey as presenting the educational contents of Korean culture for the beginners who get access to Korean language. This thesis will show the linguistic and cultural similarities between two languages to make the beginners to concern about Korean language and to induce them to have an interest in learning it. Before analyzing, I would examine the close relationship, the purpose and the contents of educating foreign language and culture in order to make the argument clear. Then I would analyze the use of appellation, honorific expression, idioms and proverbs in Korean and Turkish as the linguistic and cultural factors. It reveals that there are many similarities in the structural and even cultural aspects of both languages. Especially, in the case of appellation and idioms many commons were appeared. For example the Korean appellation has one of the most profound and complex systems, and so does Turkish, particularly in the relative appellation. The most difficult part for the beginners who study the Korean appellation is the pronominal appellation-the second person appellation. Therefore it is essential to make them understand the pronominal appellation exactly in the basic step. It is recommended to give lessons first in the subject honorific expressions, which appear in Turkish. Through idioms and proverbs, which appear with high frequency and many similarities, to obtain the analogous comparing two cultures will be helpful for educating Korean culture. I would go over the direction of educating Korean culture for the beginners based on that analysis. This direction should be in the form of combination with language education and make the students to understand Korean culture and have interest in learning Korean. In Turkey, Korean language education has started since 1989 so far we can hardly deny that Korean culture education is not enough observing our educational environment. Therefore, we have to educate Korean culture from the beginners step dealing with the linguistic and cultural similarities of two languages.
Keywords
KoreanTurkishKorean Culture EducationKorean Beginner's CourseLanguage&CultureHonorific ExpressionsAppellationIdiomProverb
