JFL환경에서의 일본어 몰입교육에 대한 현황 －고려대학교 일어일문학과의 예를 통해서－

Abstract

This study examined the status of Japanese immersion education in a JFLenvironment, focusing on the Department of Japanese Language and Literatureat Korea University. The university has been practicing immersion education formore than ten years, and its results are as follows. First, after reviewing thenames and descriptions of all the courses provided, it was found that therewere no subjects that focus on listening skills. Thus the Japanese immersioneducation program which has been implemented since the second semester in2003 at Korea University could be said, as a result, helped students to improvetheir listening skills. Second, as all the courses fall into the categories of eithertheoretical or practical ones, the relative importance of theory oriented courseswas found to be higher than that of language skill oriented courses in theimmersion education program. Although the number of language skill orientedcourses are much smaller than that of theory oriented courses, the immersioneducation program was introduced to all of these rather “minor” courses givenamong the university’s whole curriculum, and even some supplemental courseswere opened additionally to further improve students’ language skills. Finally,even since the university’s administration has changed its policy towardimmersion education programs in 2014 that each departments have a right todecide whether or not to introduce immersion programs to their courses, far somany teachers and lecturers gave the GO signs to immersion programs,believing that it’s essential for students’ language skill improvement.