LDA 토픽모델링 기반 프랑스어교육 연구 동향 및 토픽 분석

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to examine the current status and problems of researches on French language education, and also to present the future direction of French language education and researches by analyzing the trend and topics of researches on French language education using the topic modeling. Methods Through the LDA-based topic modeling which is the most representative topic modeling that automatically extracts and classifies latent topics as a text mining technique used for the analysis of a large quantity of texts, this study analyzed the network between four topic contents and topics focusing on the keywords of 265 theses on French language education published from January 2002 to February 2021. Results The results of this study were drawn as follows. First, due to the decreased French language education in secondary school and university, the researches on French language education record the low level despite some differences in each year. Second, in the results of examining the appearance frequency of keywords, it was shown in the order of ‘French language education’, ‘Curriculum’, ‘French language’, ‘communication skills’, and ‘French language as a foreign language’. This shows the active performance of researches focusing on the curriculum that becomes the standard of Korean secondary French language education, and communication skills as its important goal, and very limited topics handled in researches on French language education. Third, total four topics were extracted through the topic modeling, and the weight of each topic was shown in the order of ‘college French language education’, ‘secondary French language education’, ‘communicative approach’, and ‘action-oriented approach’. This study also verified that the researches on French language education were concentrated on a specific area or limited to the level or contents of theories or policies. Thus, it would be necessary to perform researches on various teaching/learning methodologies for improving students’ interest or expanding the teaching/learning contents that could be concretely applied to school field. Fourth, in the analysis of network between topics, focusing on French language, the foreign language, curriculum, learning, textbook, communication skills, learner, culture, French language education, education, and France were connected to each other while the French language education, France, culture, and education were forming another network. Conclusions This study verified the necessity of researches on various teaching/learning methods for diversifying and expanding the research field related to French language education, and also motivating and improving interest of learners.