Introducing Traditional Korean Children‘s Songs to the World: Classroom Uses and Methods

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to develop teaching methods for selected traditional Korean songs based on an integrative approach that combines music and games. It is hoped that the methods developed in this study may help to accelerate the globalization of Korea‘s musical heritage, particularly of its traditional children‘s songs. This study may be classified as qualitative in nature and explains methods for the physical application of traditional Korean children‘s songs in the classroom setting. The collected songs were selected from past and ongoing studies on the subject conducted by the researcher (1998; 1999; 2001). The lyrics of five of the songs have been translated into several languages-English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French and Spanish (partial)-at the preschool and lower primary grade levels, and include phonetic guides for Chinese and Japanese. Each song is accompanied by proposed game-based teaching methods, described in illustrations, for the assistance of early childhood educators around the world.