There has been changes in the field of Korean language education and the people who learn it. This research, on education of Korean language, has been conducted to find mechanisms for utilizing visual contents to develop educational material for teach...
There has been changes in the field of Korean language education and the people who learn it. This research, on education of Korean language, has been conducted to find mechanisms for utilizing visual contents to develop educational material for teaching Korean language by using multimedia to cope with the demands on education on Korean language. The visual contents are not limited to simple images only. Currently, such contents are being utilized for education to large extents as it is an effective mechanism for educational activities and provide appropriate social/cultural implication. Especially, the visual contents are recently being implemented within multimedia as a whole along with the developed technology. Hence, the value of such contents is increasing. The visual contents with which this research deals with are different from existing visual material. The previous one has been utilized either as support material and input data for teaching/learning or focused on image. However, the visual contents in this research not only has the same functions but also play a role as text such as language since it contains detailed contents and context. Therefore, it can be used as teaching/learning material. The visual contents has characteristics of visual data especially. However, this study has attempted to apply the principle of OSMU in various steps not limited to particular step of education by enforcing the concept of contents. Furthermore, this research suggests ways of overcoming limitations caused by standardized and fixed characteristics of existing visual material by making enumeration and practicality possible through combining with info-communication technology.
To achieve the objective, this research has analyzed relevant literatures and the representative visual materials included in Korean language education. In addition, this research has investigated the demands of educators and learners globally, including Korea, regarding visual materials in practice. For literature review, the focus was on studies on visual materials by Korean language education, foreign language education, educational technology and media. Regarding the text, four and seven forms of integrated and separated textbooks, which have been published by main educational institution of Korea and other nations have been selected.
The demands of visual material have been analyzed through analysis of related theories and current practices based on literatures and existing educational materials. Furthermore, this research has taken into account the opinions from educators of four main nations including Korea, China, Vietnam and Mongolia on limitations of the existing visual material, forms and level of visual materials for the future.
Through all these processes, this presents the principles for developing visual contents in section 5. Also, visual contents developed using these principles has been arranged by form. The visual contents, basically, should be developed based on general characteristics of educational material. However, this research is focused on presenting mechanisms for implementing contents and context required for making the material as contents but not limited to data only. This process not only includes the discussion based on the reality and practicality of adopting the real world in the classroom but also the discussion on organizing context and contents which has the structure of basic text. Furthermore, this research has attempted to visualize reading contents, of which direction is contrast to that of making previous material as contents, and this uses understanding on text by utilizing graphic organizer. Such visual contents can be provided as services in existing material as well as on website that can be established in the form of data base such as digital archive. In this process, of course, enumeration and systemization occur. The web-service of visual contents enhances material-accessibility of systems that are irregular due to the recent changes in education on Korea and systems that are relatively weak such as educational sites around the world. In addition, the material, which can be downloaded from web-site, can be modified according to the characteristics of each education site hence enhances efficiency of education.
However, this research does have some limitations. Due to insufficient existing data on making visual material as contents, there has been limitations in establishing proper logic of discussion on the subject at hand. Hence they may not be used as example data due to lack of professionality in developing visual contents. I hope that this research would be one of the efforts to satisfy the demands of domestic and overseas educators on changes in Korean language educations and development of a more appropriate educational material.
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