A Content Course for Advanced Learners of Korean, “Gender and Sexuality in Korean Culture”: The Approach of Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper illustrates the theoretical framework of curriculum design and the teaching practice of the content course for the advanced level learner “Gender and Sexuality in Korean Culture.” By defining the concept of culture as an ongoing and constitutive entity, the course is designed to explore the constitutive nature of love, sex, and marriage in Korean culture through the various ways of using language in different genres of texts. In this paper, the theoretical issues of critical discourse analysis will be briefly examined in relation to the curriculum design and teaching practice of the course. Critical discourse analysis highlights the mutually constitutive relationship between use of language and socio-political reality. Its theoretical framework is relevant to the pedagogical goal of course, which is designed to equip advanced students with the perspective to look at the relationship between the process of cultural formation and the use of language in a socio-historical context.