텍스트 점유율 조정을 통한 소설 텍스트 수정 연구

Abstract

This study aims to revise novel texts for intermediate-level Korean language learners through text coverage adjustment. The target text, Park Tae-won’s A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist is a work that illustrates the conflicts concerning the daily life, ideal, and reality seen in the eyes of a helpless intellectual in the 1930s through the process of walking and wandering and is a short story included a high frequency in high school textbooks under the 2009 revised national curriculum. This work suits the personal growth model in the literature education models by Carter and Long (1991) and can be closely connected to the experience of the learners who study abroad in unfamiliar places. Furthermore, since it is possible to peek the Korean modernization through the image of Gyeongseong during the Japanese colonial period, it can also be connected to the class of a cultural model. For the revision of the text, this study revised the text based on the result of Hwang (2017) who analyzed text coverage of short stories included in high school textbooks, expanding the vocabulary list standard of Korean Language Education Vocabulary Content Development by the National Institute of the Korean Language to Classes A-E, so that vocabularies in Classes A-C would be more than 95% of the entire text. The coverage of 95% and over was taken as the standard according to Yoon (2011) and Nation (2013) who investigated the coverage of understandable reading texts for Korean-language learners, and the text coverage of 95% becomes the threshold for successful reading performance. Hopefully, this study would prepare the base for the practical utilization of novels in the field of Korean language education, revising the text for the learners’ levels objectively and efficiently by utilizing the established corpus materials and research criteria.