외국인 학부 신입생의 학문적 문식력 변화 양상 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the academic literacy change of foreign undergraduate students. It analyzed the compositions of foreign undergraduates who took the course ‘Thinking and Writing’ over two semesters at K university. Twelve students participated in this study, and they each wrote about four topics. Each composition was more than 600 characters, and a total of 48 compositions were analyzed. Academic literacy is “the ability to understand and produce text in a shared way in an academic community”. This study evaluated academic literacy using the categories of linguistic literacy, critical literacy, cultural literacy, and information literacy. After evaluating the academic literacy in the 48 compositions, we concluded that undergraduates progressively changed their academic literacy over a year, even though the rate had fallen to a specific point. The foreign undergraduate freshmen students in our study received relatively high scores for their cultural literacy and the content aspects of their linguistic literacy, while the expression aspects of their linguistic literacy received low scores. Although the improvement in cultural literacy was somewhat high through a communication course, such as a first year college writing class, the improvement in the expression aspects of linguistic literacy was somewhat low. It was apparent that the improvement in academic literacy was evenly achieved. In addition, when we looked at the changes in the academic literacy of upper, middle, and lower-level students, we saw different aspects of individual change.