— Overview
Korean, for the learner, is a foreign language, the account says, and a textbook should be written from that side: basic rules and language principles should be in the book, because teaching Koreans and teaching foreigners are not the same task. Once such a book is in place, the question is what it does in class. Teachers, the account says, need to know those functions if they are to use a book well. Three functions are named. The first is a standard, or a compass, for what is taught. Content does not always rise unbidden in a teacher’s mind, and if a teacher decides the curriculum alone, each time, teaching becomes less efficient. The book holds a direction, and an efficient order, so the teacher can follow it and offer systematic teaching. The second function is to lay a path so that learners meet material in an efficient sequence. The third is to let a renewed curriculum settle naturally into the lesson.
The writer ranks first the function that fills a teacher’s gaps. Learning efficiency, the writer says, should not swing with one teacher’s ability; the book should protect learners from that harm. At the same time, a teacher should be able to use all three functions in practice. A good textbook, the recap concludes, makes learning more stable. Books cited at the end — a Seoul National University volume (2014), a grammar of Korean-language education (2016), and a glossary (2015) — are left as a bibliography. Findings are not drawn from those titles.
— Contents and key concepts
A book written for a foreign-language classroom
Korean, for the learner, is a foreign language, the account says. A textbook should be written from that side. Basic content, rules, and language principles should be in the book, because teaching Koreans and teaching foreigners are not the same task. Once such a book is in place, the question is what it does in the classroom. Teachers, the account says, need to know those functions if they are to use a book well.
Three functions are named. The first is a standard, or a compass, for what is taught. Content does not always rise unbidden in a teacher’s mind, and if a teacher decides the curriculum alone, each time, teaching becomes less efficient. The book holds a direction, and an efficient order, so the teacher can follow it and offer systematic teaching.
A sequence, a changed curriculum, and a gap filled first
The second function is to lay a path so that learners meet material in an efficient sequence. The third is to let a renewed curriculum settle naturally into the lesson. Those three are left as the account names them. They are not turned into a later official checklist.
The writer ranks first the function that fills a teacher’s gaps. Learning efficiency, the writer says, should not swing with one teacher’s ability; the book should protect learners from that harm. At the same time, a teacher should be able to use all three functions in practice. A good textbook, the recap concludes, makes learning more stable. Books cited at the end — a Seoul National University volume on the theory and practice of Korean-language education (2014), a grammar of Korean-language education (2016), and a glossary (2015) — are left as a bibliography. Findings are not drawn from those titles.
Sources
- an account of three functions of a Korean textbook in class — a compass for content, an efficient sequence, and a way to absorb a changed curriculum — with the writer ranking the filling of a teacher’s gaps first.
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