It has passed eight years since Korean high-schools began to teach Japanese as second forign language from first semester 1973 in the wake of Korean Government's announcement, September 1972, which made public its policy of teaching Japanese.
There w...
It has passed eight years since Korean high-schools began to teach Japanese as second forign language from first semester 1973 in the wake of Korean Government's announcement, September 1972, which made public its policy of teaching Japanese.
There were only two colleges in early 1960s which established department of Japanese language and literature. However, since 1973 a total of 40-odd universities and colleges across the country have offered the bachelor course of Japanese language and literature. And steadily is increasing the number of students who study Japanese as second foreign language.
Practically we have nearly followed the Japanese own teaching method and basic theory which were developed to teach Japanese for both Japanese and foreign students in Japan by Japanese themselves.
Currently Korean high-school's Japanese course indicates that our high-schools are bound to teach their students 300 Japanese words in 200 lectures which are chosen to teach foreigners in 500 lectures in Japan. Moreover, we have unintentionally introduced and adopted the unfamiliar Japanese grammar terminologies and theory which are not acknowledged even by Japanese scholars, teaching them to our students. This trend is surely obstacle to effectively educating Japanese in Korea.
Therefore, this writer conducted a survey of Japanese vocabulary frequency from high-school textbooks, 10 kinds of teaching materials used in universities and colleges and private institutes across the nation. As a result of this survey, 2,063 words are selected as basic vocabularies of the highest frequency.
And then these, 2,063 words are made a comparative study with those used in "THE DICTIONARY OF BASIC WORDS FOR FOREIGNERS", "JAPANESE TEXTBOOK FOR FOREIGNERS" of TOKYO GAIDAI HUZOKU NIHONGO SCHOOL, "JAPANESE DICTIONARY FOR ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS", 90 Japanese magazines. It is found that these 2,063 words are basic vocabularies in modern Japanese society.
Accordingly the writer suggested that among 2,063 words, 1,500 words be repeatedly taught to students after revising current high-school's Japanese curriculum.
In terms of grammar, it is rightly proved that newly introduced theory should be taught according to laboratory practice and evolution. Therefore, this treatise maintains that current high-school's Japanese curriculum be rearranged in accordance with this suggestion.
Finally, the writer is convinced that if the above theory is paplied to teach Japanese, teaching Japanese in Korea will work both nominally and virtually, and high-school's Japanese education will be achieved effectively and systematically.