The purpose of this study is to prepare the list of cultural vocabulary as the educational contents for integrated education of Korean culture for Korean-American children learners.
In chapter 1, I proposed the purpose and the necessity of this res...
The purpose of this study is to prepare the list of cultural vocabulary as the educational contents for integrated education of Korean culture for Korean-American children learners.
In chapter 1, I proposed the purpose and the necessity of this research. And I intended this research to be progressed by reviewing previous researches on this topic and suggested the research methods.
In chapter 2, by reviewing the previous studies on cultural vocabulary, I defined the concept of cultural vocabulary and divide them into upper and lower categories.
In chapter 3, I used objective and subjective methods to select the cultural vocabulary. The objective method is selecting the repeated vocabularies from three cultural vocabulary lists studied in Korea and general and cultural textbooks which have been used in Korean language schools. Based on this objective method, I conducted vocabulary evaluation survey as a subjective method to teachers who have 5 or more years of teaching experience to verify whether those selected vocabularies are appropriate to Korean-American children learners or not. Through these methods, I selected 456 cultural vocabularies for Korean-American children learners.
In chapter 4, I analyzed the selected vocabularies by topic and textbook.
In chapter 5, I suggested methods of teaching thematic culture vocabulary. I suggested activities for experience as a education way about living culture vocabulary, semantic network activities as a education way about language culture vocabulary, activities focused on context as a education way about transmitting culture vocabulary, activities focused on audio-visual materials as a education way about art culture vocabulary, activities focused on comparison as a education way about institutional culture and activities focused on story as a education way about spiritual culture. Also I suggested integrated cultural vocabulary education methods by games which could be applied to all vocabulary education in light of children learners.
In chapter 6, I summarized the paper and examined the significance and the limitations of this study.