Research Trend on the Writing Patterns of Multimedia Utilization －Focusing on Korean Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the patterns of writing with multimedia and to suggest an advanced direction for successful classes. To the end, this study took 22 academic studies through a purposeful sampling method and analysed each kind of medium used, as well as the subject’s learners interaction with the writing patterns utilized in Korean education. Most of all, it classified them according to the kinds of utilized media: genre media, vessel media and vessel media with genre media. As a result, it found that there were variety of genre media used, such as traditional folk songs, fairy tales, video materials, homepage profiles. The same was found to be true for vessel media, such as e-mails, Instagram, video-editors, smart-phones, and Zoom. In terms of interaction, individual writings with computer programs, communicative CMC-based writings with other users, and face-to-face cooperative writings with the teacher and other learners were shown as well. Also, it identified the writing activities for creating the identical or different genres with the previously utilized genre media, as well as the writings through letters after reading genre materials. Furthermore, a genre-based approach was applied to the teachings in which genre literacy education was operated in advance for creating each authentic media texts and the instruction of learners to write in the appropriate genre. This shows that the perspective on creation-based media education was reflected, and that the critical media literacy education deeply affects Korean teaching in foreign language education. Based on these findings, this study proposed some suggestions.