A Critical Study on the Contents of Subjectin Grammar Education
Kang Hyokyung Joo Se-Hyung
Seoul National University, Department of Korean Language Education, Lecturer Sogang University, Graduate School of Education, Professor
Korean Language Education Research Vol. 55 No. 3 pp.41-70 (2020)
Abstract
Kang Hyokyung・Joo Se-hyung The purpose of this paper is to discuss the needs for more expanded educational contents about the ‘Subject’ by examining textbooks and curricula of grammar education. In the meantime, the educational con- tents related to the subject are as follows. First, the contents have been focused on the obligatory arguments of the sentence, and the subject has been treated as a syntactic and morphologic concept within the scope of ‘one sentence’. Second, the contents has been mainly constructed in the dimension of accuracy in relation to the structure and concord of the sen- tence. Therefore, there has been a limitation to the experience and explo- ration of various aspects of the Korean subject. Based on the above discussions, we would suggest three directions in reconstruing educational contents. First, we could get linguistic typol- ogy to balance the viewpoint with other languages. Second, we could offer a multilayered perspective in describing subject and sentence. Third, we should include an understanding ‘genre’ as well as so called ‘grammar accuracy outlook’.
Keywords
SubjectThemeInformation StructureGenreImpersonalization
