Hearing is what takes the most relative importance among the language
activities of speaking, hearing, and writing in our daily lives. However, it is a
real situation that hearing is so negligently treated in our language education.
So, this paper ...
Hearing is what takes the most relative importance among the language
activities of speaking, hearing, and writing in our daily lives. However, it is a
real situation that hearing is so negligently treated in our language education.
So, this paper intends to analyse the teacher's recognition of high school's
hearing education, based on the data from the subjects for the study, 84 high
school teachers, in order to find out the realities of high school's hearing
education.
In this study, findings from an analytical study on the teacher's
recognition of their hearing education were generalized and diagnosed as
follows:
It appeared that in respect that the teacher's guiding students into good
hearing necessitates a means of voice, an opinion that hearing education
requires, at the same time, speaking education represented 80% of all the
opinions of subject teachers, thereby indicating the teacher's poor recognition of
hearing education; 60.7% of those teachers said it was hard for them to guide
students into good hearing for the lacking time due to their spending much time
to their guiding students to passing the college entrance examination. Also it
appeared that the teacher's evaluation of the student's hearing ability was not
well practiced at the scene of education, considering that no case(0%) was
shown in that teacher's evaluation of the student's hearing ability was done by
generalized, accumulated records and 75.0% of the opinions of those teachers
indicated, in general, no practice of the teacher's guiding students into good
hearing.
In fact, so far no concrete method to apply education for the whole man
to the real scene of education has been suggested, even though its importance
was emphasized every time our curriculum was changed. So, in the result of
inspection of the influence of the four sectors of language education(speaking,
reading, writing and hearing) on the growth of 'the whole man', it apeared
that speaking influences 37% on that growth, reading 21.4%, and hearing
19.0%. As just indicated, the relative importance of hearing is least. However,
an opinion that a good ability to hear results in good human nature represented
64.3% of the opinions of those teachers, thereby indicating that hearing greatly
influences human nature.
Next. the points at issue of hearing education can be observed in three
ways as follows:
First, the problem is the education centered on the student's passing the
college entrance examination. For the lacking of class hours and the realities
of overcrowed classes, no teachers could afford to apply a proper teaching
model to their class.
Second, another problem is about the quality of teachers themselves. It is
the realities that even in the college of education where teachers of Korean
language are being cultivated, there is hardly a course through which the future
language teachers can directly learn their actual guide method into good
hearing or its evaluation. Therefore, the actually applicable education of
language activities should be practiced in the college of education, and with
teachers at the scene of education provided with the opportunity for them to be
trained about the system of the contents of education, efforts should be given to
re-educating them.
Third, it is considered that hearing education should be done to elementary
students from their beginning of schooling through abundant language data, and
however the reality is hard to materialize that. By the way, the teacher's
guiding students into good hearing in the class of Korean language is generally
centered on the units suggested in textbooks.
Finally, some plans to better the hearing education of high school are
suggested as follows: In the first place, the target of the hearing education of
high school is 'to make students rightly understand the content of speaking and
judge whether it is effectively expressed or not'. Hearing education sets its
target 'to hear while judging' and 'hearing while understanding'. However,
such a process is hard or rather impossible for students to learn by the training
through simple technics, though, and it may be possible through a high level
of training.
So, if such matters are the pending problems in improving hearing
education, it is more necessary than anything else that the number of students
in a class should be decreased, teachers should emerge from their teaching
method centered on the preparation for the student's passing the college
examination, and the conditions on that teachers could receive a kind of
re-education should be created.