외국인 유학생의 한국어 토론 입론문 분석 연구

Abstract

Objectives The objective of this study is to examine the argumentation structure shown in the argument of debates by foreign students.
 Methods For this, total 35 pieces of argument data submitted by foreign students were analyzed according to the composition of argumentation, structure of reason, and types of grounds presentation.
 Results In the results of this study, regarding the structure of argumentation, the structure ‘claim+grounds+fact’ showed the highest frequency. In the composition of argumentation, most of them had the convergence structure. In the types of grounds presentation, most of them wrote their argument by using some examples of an objective fact.
 Conclusions Based on such results of this study, the debate argumentative writings produced by foreign students did not have the mutually-organic cohesiveness in the aspect of composition of argumentation. Also, in the presentation of grounds, they simply listed objective facts, so the persuasive power of their claim was not that great. Thus, the debate education as a Korean language course for general education for foreign students needs to practice the students to explicitly understand the structure of argumentation for persuasion in the pre-process of debate. Especially, the critical thinking skills for the selection of base data should be improved. After establishing the grounds for the debate subject to have a debate in Korean as a second language, it would be necessary to teach the persuasive speaking expressions for the most persuasive argument. Lastly, as a limitation of this study, this study could not analyze a large number of argument structure, so the further researches should analyze the argumentation structure specialized in debate of foreign students.