외국인 학부 유학생의 한국어 읽기 동기 양상 연구

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to reveal the educational implications related to the reading motivation of foreign students by exploring the subfactors of Korean-reading motivation by targeting foreign undergraduate students in Korea and examining the difference in Korean-reading motivation according to the learners’ variables related to gender, nationality, and level.
 Methods To this end, the test was conducted using the foreign language reading motivation scale of Lee & Kwon (2022), which was developed based on the reading motivation theory of Watkins & Coffey(2004), Mori(2002), etc. on 86 foreign undergraduate students attending 4 universities in Seoul and Busan, from the May to June 2022, and the results were statistically verified by SPSS 26.0.
 Results As a result of the study, the motivation for domestic foreign undergraduate students to read Korean was extracted into 6 subfactors: (1)reading challenge motivation, (2)reading importance motivation, (3)efficacy motivation, (4)fiction motivation, (5)non-fiction motivation, and (6)recognition and competition motivation. In addition, as a result of confirming the difference of patterns in reading motivation according to the learners’ variables, The difference in motivation according to gender found that men are more motivated than women in reading efficacy motivation and women are more motivated than men in reading challenge motivation and fiction motivation. The motivation factor according to nationality showed statistically significant difference only in reading challenge motivation, and the difference in motivation according to the TOPIK level showed that 3rd and 4th grade acquirers had a higher motivation than 5th and 6th grade acquirers in recognition and competition motivation.
 Conclusions In the field of Korean reading education as a foreign language, given that discussions such as reading motivation in affective aspects and the results of the study have been relatively insignificant, the results of this study are meaningful as a study that investigated the Korean reading motivation of foreign students, identified subfactors, and statistically identified differences in motivation patterns according to learners' variables. The results of this study are basic and empirical study on the reading motivation of foreign students, which can be used as basic data for teaching and learning of foreign undergraduate students in Korea.