베트남 유학생의 “학습자 되어가기”의 경험 탐구

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to examine the process of “becoming a learner” for Vietnamese students and explore its educational implications in order to reflect on the lives and experiences of international students as agents of learning.
 Methods For the purpose, this research conducted in-depth interviews with 7 Vietnamese international students enrolled in A-University in KyungBuk province. This research used ‘becoming a learner’ process and experience that cannot be generalized by using Yin’s ‘explanation’ method with following steps of ‘open coding’, ‘categorization’, and ‘confirm category’. In addition, Deleuze and Guattari's concept of ‘becoming’ was used as the direction of analysis of the interview data.
 Results As a result of the analysis of the data, the experiences of Vietnamese students ‘becoming a learner’ were confirmed to be those that continuously pursue novelty and were classified in the following forms: ‘escape to Korea,’ ‘experiencing the ‘difference’ and ‘repetition’ of balancing work and study,’ ‘growing up while observing the lives of myself and others,’ ‘the place where I am becomes a place of learning,’ and ‘dreaming a nomadic life different from yesterday.’
 Conclusions The insight from the Vietnamese international students' experience in the process of 'becoming a learner' was that the learning was not limited to a place. The process of constantly rearranging the given environment and people through their lives allowed creative creation and transformation to continue, and it could be explained that work and learning were never separated. In this respect, it is necessary to devise educational countermeasures such as community connection and university community vitalization that enable Vietnamese students to maintain their studies based on their understanding of life as learners.