A Study on the Development of Instruction of the Nominalizing Endings ‘-eum’ and ‘-gi’ for Korean Advanced Learners

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop instruction of the ‘-eum’ and ‘-gi’ endings for Korean advanced learners. The ability to properly use ‘-eum’ and ‘-gi’ is difficult to cultivate in students through the memorization of simple rules or repeated practice. Also, the instructor’s explanation for such methods inevitably proves abstract. Therefore, there is a need for a method that enables learners to obtain a more in-depth understanding of grammatical phenomena by discovering and internalizing rules by themselves through the process of <i>inquiry</i>. Based on this recognition of the problem, this study developed a class of ‘-eum’ and ‘-gi’ using the O-H-E model. At this time, in the last stage (the experimental stage) an explicit explanation process is required to check whether learners have correctly derived the hypothesis, rather than having them merely engage in the infinite repetition of the hypothesis-experiment-hypothesis-correction-revalidation stage until the theorization of the hypothesis established by the learner is verified. Therefore, the experimental steps of the existing model were subdivided into hypothesis testing, theory establishment, and use.Based on this process, an actual step-by-step task was developed and presented. However, it is regrettable that the level of the developed class and the effectiveness of the educational task were not verified in the actual classes, but only suggested. Nevertheless, this study is meaningful in that it designed a specific class step and showed the process of actual assignment and material development.