문장 부호와 국어 교육

Abstract

This study aims to elucidate currency and task of punctuation education in Korean education. First, students remember that they have learned punctuation in elementary, middle, and high school, and suggest that punctuation education is needed in early elementary school. They recognize that periods(.), question marks(?), commas(,), exclamations(!), and quotation marks(" ") are important, but ring-like periods(。) and reverse momma(⼂) are not useful. Later two punctuations will be perished in late 2013 new punctuation norm. Punctuation educations have been carried out across whole schools. Elementary and high school students are learning punctuations indispensably. There are curriculum standards dealing with punctuation in elementary and high school, but not concretely in middle school. Generally speaking, punctuations are regarded as important in writing, but are needed in reading, speaking and listening. For example 'spacing' plays great role in reading. It is controversial whether 'spacing' is a kind of punctuations.