Papers and Publications
– A Study on Korean Culture Education with Fairy Tales for Myanmarese (Southeast Asian Journal 2017, Volume- 26, No-3)
Abstract:
This study aims to help Korean culture education for Myanmar people through fairy tales. Korean culture education is essential for fluency of Korean language and adaptation to Korean society and culture to foreign students and workers. In the study, eight fairy tales consisting of four Korean fairy tales and four Myanmar fairy tales are selected as research materials. Through the analysis of Korean and Myanmar fairy tales, cultural elements and identities were identified and compared with the materials from the both countries. The analysis has been processed in the respect of character and contents of the materials. The fairy tales were analyzed by one-to-one correspondence, such as myanmar ‘Devotion(성의)’ vs. ‘An Old Man Planting Dreams(꿈을 심는 노인)’and then they were sorted according to cultural and identificational elements. Even though two countries have a few cultural and historical interchanges and are far away from each other, the traditional fairy tales between Myanmar and Korea showed high similarities in the view of cultural elements, values, and identities. In the fairy tales there are many common aspects and similarities in cultures such as tendency of regarding agricultural society as important, the hierarchy according to ages, the filial duty, family relationship, and the community solidarity. I believe those similarities in Myanmar and Korean cultures could be a desirable norm for Myanmarese to study Korean language and to adjust to Korean society.
– A Study on the Motivation for Selection of Korean Language Major by International
Students and Their Satisfaction about their Major (Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society 2017, Volume-18, No 7)
Abstract
The Korean language major is being activated in line with the increasing number of international students who are studying in South Korea. Therefore, the motivation for selecting a university major varies according to the background, environment, and values of each student. Thus, it is meaningful to examine the motivation of international students to select their major and their satisfaction on the major. In this study, 173 international students living in Seoul were surveyed and the data were analyzed using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 23.0 to demonstrate the structural relationship between their motivation for selecting the major and their satisfaction about the major. From analysis result, their motivation for selecting a Korean language major were classified into internal and external motivations, and their major satisfaction was classified into perception satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, subject satisfaction, and general satisfaction. Regarding the motivations to select a Korean language major, the level of external motivation was very high, and among the major satisfaction, the level of general satisfaction was the highest. Furthermore, the external and internal motives had significant positive effects on all the categories of major satisfaction, including the perception satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, subject satisfaction, and general satisfaction. This study suggests effective methods to improve the satisfaction of international students about the Korean language major such as the provision of information about and opportunities for employment using their major and the provision of a high quality.
– A Study on Research trends about Myanmarese Korean Language Learners (The Journal of Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction (JLCCI) 2019, Volume- 19, No-15)
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the trend of research related to Myanmarese who studies Korean language. This study collected researches related to Myanmarese Korean Language Learners as research material, and these materials are collected through Research Information Sharing Service (RISS) by imputing keywords ‘Myanmar language’, ‘Myanmarese Korean language’, ‘Myanmarese Korean Language Leaner’, ‘Burmese language’, ‘Burmese Korean language’, and ‘Burmese Korean Language Leaner’. From February 2019 to July 2019, the analysis was conducted and the data were collected. Through this process, 61 researches were collected as research material. These materials were analyzed under the criteria that consist of year of publication, publication types, and field of study, subject, language, and research method. This study illustrated that the amounts of researches has been a steep rise in 2012 because of political issues and the conditions of the market economy in myanmar, and this trends has been lasting for about 8 years. The Contrastive Analysis and Comparative Studies were mostly detected in research material. There were few Doctoral thesis in data of the study. This paper ushers in understanding for the trends and implications of the studies related Myanmarese who studies Korean language. And this study introduces the insufficient part of the researches.
– A Study on Korean Cultural Educational Teaching Korean Language by Researching
Fairy Tale ‘The Sun and The Moon’ (Universities Research Journal 2019, Vol. 12, No. 9)
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to build a teaching materials based on fairy tales. For the purpose of the study, it is substantiated that the relevance between language and culture by investigating researches of linguistic and cultural anthropology. Through this process, it corroborates that cultural Education is needed for teaching foreign language. And also it is proved that fairy tales is good for materials of cultural educations. The fairy tale ‘The Sun and The Moon’ is selected as research materials in this study, and qualitative research designed is applied in this research. By researching under the procedures, Teaching materials and syllabus is yielded as the result of the study, and this is based on learner-centered educations. And the characteristic of language is also reflected to the materials that derived from the research. This study and results yielded proffer to promoting Korean language learner’s attention and interest. And the level of difficulty of lecture can be easily adjusted so this could cover from beginners to advanced learner. Also, Korean language learners could be exposed to four activities of language – Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking – on balance. Eventually, these effects of the study could strengthens Korean language learner’s language skills and their interest in studying Korean language.
– A study of suggestion for corpus research through analyzing trends of theses of
corpus published in South Korea (YUFL Research Journal 2020, Volume- 11, No-1)
Abstract
The purpose of study focused on presenting suggestions for corpus research. Corpus is promising field and many corporates and academic field is entering and researching this area. In contrast, there is hard to find activities of corpus in Myanmar. Therefore, the study researching previous studies dealt with corpus can be a signpost and catalyst for myanmarese corporates and academic to enhancing activities and researches of corpus. This research begins with this awareness above. For this reason, this paper analyzed theses of corpus published in South Korea over decade (from 2010 to 2019), and theses is selected via website RISS controlled to authorities of South Korea government. 79 theses is obtained as sample data, and this sample data is analyzed by categories. Through the process, this paper suggests three suggestions. First, Corpus is not a sanctuary for linguistics and specific language. Second, Collaboration between language and other academic field is not only already becoming a reality, but also essential for developing the field of corpus. And Third, Government and organizations that can runs a lot of capital is essential for developing academic field of corpus.
– A study of concept comparison of tense between Myanmar and Korean language
(narasarang 2020.11, Volume- 129, No-)
Abstract
This study aims to analyze and compare the tense of Korean and Myanmar language. For the study, Data were collected and analyzed from Standard Korean Language Dictionary(표준국어대사전), Grammar for Foreigners 1: Structure(외국인을 위한 한국어 문법 1-체계 편), Encyclopedia of Korean Culture(한국민족문화대백과사전), Yonsei Korean Dictionary(연세 한국어 사전), Yonsei Korean(연세 한국어) 1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, 4-1, 4-2, 5-1, 5-2, 6-1, 6-2, Myanmar Grammar(미얀마 문법). The findings show that there is similar structural point of tense between Korean and Myanmar language – past, present, and future – but differences are found. In Korean language, one more than tense can be confirmed in some expressions thus these cannot be clearly categorized as past, present, or future. In the case of Myanmar, it is only possible to understand the tense when considering not only the grammatical expressions of the tense, but also the meaning of the vocabulary and the overall context. Some grammatical expressions of tense in Korean language contain tense and aspect, but grammatical expressions of tense in Myanmar language mainly deals with tense itself. Based on these findings, this paper lets people who are related to Korean and Myanmar language know the concept and differences of tense of Korean and Myanmar language.
