• 한국어교육
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.1-24
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• 2017

This article explores the developmental history of TOPIK over the last 20 years and its recent trends. Over the last two decades, TOPIK underwent two major systematic reforms, achieving both quantitative and qualitative growth over the course of its 52 testing sessions. TOPIK has utilized a six-level evaluation system from its inception to the present. The evaluation system was amended from the earlier six-test set - whereby each level corresponded with a separate test (1997~2005: the $1^{st}{\sim}9^{th}$) - to the three-test set (2006~2014: the $10^{th}{\sim}34^{th}$), and finally to the two-test set (2014~present: the $35^{th}{\sim}42^{nd}$). In the earlier exams, abilities in Vocabulary Grammar, Writing, Listening, and Reading were assessed. However, beginning with the $35^{th}$ TOPIK, abilities in Listening, Reading, and Writing (only in TOPIK II) were assessed and the evaluation of the writing section was changed to a task-based process, improving TOPIK into a more qualified analysis of proficiency. Over the last 20 years, the number of countries TOPIK is administered in has greatly increased from 4 to 73 countries, and the annual number of test-takers has also significantly increased from 2,692 to 250,141. The distribution of proficiency levels of the test-takers has shifted over time - initially "Beginner>Intermediate>Advanced" in the earlier exams, to "Intermediate>Advanced>Beginner" after the mid 2000s - as the number of those studying the Korean language for specific purposes and continuing education increased. Test-takers have indicated a shift in their purpose for taking the exam, initially citing "to assess proficiency" and more recently selecting "to study abroad," and this could also correlate with changes in the proportion of test-takers' proficiency level. In general, 85~95% of beginner, 50~65% of intermediate, and 45~60% of advanced test applicants passed the respective proficiency level. To date, no practices have yet been implemented to standardize the difficulty level longitudinally across test sets.

• 한국어교육
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.123-159
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• 2012

This study investigates relationships between TOPIK ratings and measures of grammaticality judgement competence in the acquisition of Korean as a second language. Data were collected on the linguistic abilities of learners' at 3 to 6 on the TOPIK scale, focusing on perception in grammar-mostly morphology and syntax, some lexis, and a few of collocation. The results show that (i) proficiency and grammaticality judgement competence show high correlation, (ii) individual accuracy scores correlate strongly with levels on the TOPIK proficiency scale on most linguistic features in the test, and (iii) Japanese speakers outperform Chinese speakers at the same levels of proficiency on most linguistic features. The findings indicate that global proficiency scales like the TOPIK can be deconstructed using grammaticality judgement test that provides detailed measures of learners' control of linguistic features.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제37권
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• pp.335-360
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether high-level(level 6) essay-writing questions in Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) have been presented appropriately so as to enable foreign test-takers to display their Korean writing ability properly, and to provide some suggestions on how those questions need to be changed. To accomplish this purpose, all the essay-writing questions were collected from the 33 TOPIK tests, from the 2nd in 1998 to the 35thin 2014, and analyzed from the perspectives of their topics and formats. The results are that high-level TOPIK essay-writing questions showed a strong tendency to take as their topics Korean sociocultural structures and phenomena, or current issues in Korea, and that they frequently employed guided writing formats by providing preset ideas or/and contexts for test-takers to write in a guided way; such tendencies were analyzed to shed a negative influence on test-takers displaying their writing ability and creativity, because those topics and preset ideas or contexts provided do not allow them to express their own opinions or positions freely. It is suggested that TOPIK essay-writing questions should be changed to deal with objective and general topics which enable test-takers to write freely and logically in Korean based on their experience, because TOPIK is not a test to check whether they have enough background knowledge about the Korean society and culture, but a test to assess their Korean proficiency.

• 한국어교육
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.169-201
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• 2014

The purpose of this research is to analyze the problems of the way of the 32th TOPIK(advanced)'s management for the disabled examinee and to prescribe the management of the TOPIK for them. Since the TOPIK started in 1997, the number of examinee who take it as a qualifying exam for the university entrance have gradually increased. The first disabled examinee who wants to use the result of the TOPIK for entrance into the post graduated university took the 32th TOPIK(advanced level). However, there was no examination regulations and detailed management method for the disabled. The biggest problem was the examinee could not have braille test and answer. The exam supervisor read all that is printed on the test sheet. It caused two big problems. 1) The essay question in writing test became an oral test. 2) The strategies of answering to multiple choice questions could not be used in vocabulary/grammar, writing, listening, and specially reading section. The first problem is occurred because writing and speaking have different cognitive process. The second one can be strongly related to the result in reading section. Above all, these disrupt accurate assessment of the examinee's writing and reading achievement. Therefore, this research insists the TOPIK needs to have the regulation and prescribe the management for the disabled. This research suggests 5 regulations for the blind examinee which covers the test time, supervisor, place and request of the examinee. These refer to the regulation for the disable in the other tests, such as the college scholarship ability test, TOEFL, TEPS, and a civil service exam.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제31권
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• pp.395-414
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• 2013

EPS-TOPIK is a test of Korean proficiency which is enforced at the level of Korean government for the selection of competent foreign workers. Therefore, it must ensure validity and reliability, and practicability as a language assessment tool. For seeking a way of developing EPS-TOPIK, in this paper, the current state of EPS-TOPIK was investigated based upon the materials published by the Korean government, and the questions of EPS-TOPIK were analysed. Together with this, newspaper articles both in Korea and in foreign countries were also analyzed, and the directors of the EPS center abroad were interviewed. According to the survey results, as expected, the local environment of Korean education is poor in a number of ways to improve the Korean communication skills of foreign workers, as well as to prepare the EPS-TOPIK. To improve the efficiency of the EPS-TOPIK and to enhance the Korean communication skills of foreign workers, the Korean language institutions including the King Sejong Institute, which are in charge of the Korean language education should closely cooperate with the Human Resources Development Service of Korea, which is responsible for all of the influx of foreign workers.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제30권
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• pp.187-222
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• 2013

In this study, From 1,560 entry-level of TOPIK standard vocabularies are 702 Sino-Korean words selected which account for 45% of the whole vocabularies in TOPIK. In addition, the same form and morpheme words in Sino-Korean are sorted out by comparing them with 5,000 words of the NEW HSK vocabularies in Sino-Korean morpheme, array position of morpheme, meaning, and usage. Those are categorized into three parts : type of completely the same form-morpheme and same meaning, use, class(189 pairs), type of completely the same form-morpheme and partly same meaning, use, class(28 pairs), and type of completely the same form-morpheme and different meaning, use, class(10 pairs). The first type of words that account for 83.26% of them are used in exactly the same way in both Chinese and Korean. Through an accurate understanding of these vocabularies could either Chinese-speaking Korean learners or Korean-speaking Chinese learners apply those words in their mother tongue to the acquisition of the target language and get more effective means of learning methods for language proficiency test.

• 국제교류와 융합교육
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.57-83
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• 2024

이 연구는 외국인 유학생들의 한국어 능력 시험(TOPIK) 등급이 학업 적응에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 하였다. IRB의 승인을 거쳐 모집한 학생은 모두 7명으로 이들의 면담 내용은 실용적 절충주의에 기초한 포괄적 분석절차 (이동성, 김영천, 2014)의 6단계를 활용해 분석했으며 그 결과 학문 목적 한국어 학습자의 학업 적응에 영향을 미치는 요인을 학업, 생활, 심리·정서의 범주로 나눌 수 있었다. 학업적 측면에서 인터뷰 대상자들은 적응하기 힘들었던 전공 용어와 전공 공부를 지적하였고, 한자 및 한자어에 큰 어려움을 경험했다. 다음으로 생활 측면에서는 고급 수준의 토픽 등급 소지자인 연구 참여자들도 대학 생활 적응에 어려움이 있었고 한국 생활에 제대로 적응하기 위해서는 실용적인 표현과 풍부한 어휘 지식이 필요함을 토로했다. 마지막으로 심리·정서적인 범주에서는 이들이 한국인들과의 대화나 발표에 상당한 스트레스를 받고 있음을 파악할 수 있었다. 사회 문화 및 일상 생활 문화에 관한 지식도 부족했기 때문에 한국어를 잘하더라도 화용적인 면에서 실수나 오류를 범하기도 했고 이것이 심리·정서적인 어려움에 처하는 요인이 되기도 했다. 이러한 이야기들을 근거로 한국어 학습자의 학업 적응을 촉진하기 위해서는 한국어 학습의 다양한 기회 부여라는 목표를 기반으로 학습자의 전공 관련 학업 능력 강화, 한국어 숙달도 향상, 학내 관계 형성에 도움을 주어야 한다는 결론을 내렸다. 그리고 연구자는 이를 위한 해결 방안으로 외국인 학습자들을 위한 다양한 비교과 활동을 계획·설계하여 시도해 볼 것을 제안했다.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.187-200
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• 2019

본 논문은 한국으로 유학 온 외국인 학생들의 성별, 국가별 및 전공 등 개인 특성과 유학동기, 전공 만족도, 한국어 능력 등급이 취업 동기에 미치는 영향을 분석한 연구이다. 이를 위해 먼저 유학생들의 취업동기와 진로선택에 관여되는 영향을 보다 체계적으로 이해하기 위해서 요인들의 현황을 분석하고, 유학생활 4년과 졸업 후 국내 인재 활용을 촉진하기 위해, 학교나 정부의 유학생 전공과 취업 및 창업을 위한 교육 관리, 정책 지원 사항을 위한 요인분석 기초 자료 활용이 논문의 목적이다. 자료 분석 방법을 위해 IBM SPSS Statistics 24 Version을 이용하였다. 분석 결과, 취업동기에서는 일본, 중국 보다 동남아시아, 중앙아시아, 남북미 아프리카의 학생들의 평균이 높았다. 변수들 간의 결과를 보면 첫째, 유학동기와 TOPIK 간의 영향 관계는 외적 유학동기가 한국어 습득의 정(+)의 영향을 주었다. 둘째, 유학동기와 전공만족도 관계에서는 유학의 내적동기가 높아질수록 전공만족도 등급이 높아지는 것으로 평가 되었다. 셋째, 유학동기와 취업동기의 관계에서는 내적 유학동기가 취업동기에 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났는데 즉 내적동기가 높아질수록 취업동기 등급이 높아지는 것으로 평가 되었다. 넷째, 전공만족도와 취업동기간의 관계를 보면 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 즉 관계 전공만족도가 높아질수록 취업 동기는 높아지는 것으로 평가 되었다. 다섯째, TOPIK은 취업동기에 유의한 부(-)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 여섯째, 유학 내적 동기가 취업 동기에 영향을 미칠 때 매개변수인 전공 만족도가 높아질수록 취업 동기도 높아지는 것으로 나왔다. 결국 외적 유학동기가 TOPIK에 내적 유학동기가 전공만족도와 취업 동기에 긍정적 영향을 주는 주된 요인임을 확인하였다. 따라서 유학생들의 유학 동기와 전공만족에 관한 관계를 정확히 파악하여, 유학 초기부터 유학생을 위한 진로와 취업을 지원하는 대학과 정부의 교육 정책 방안 및 유학생 인재 육성에 관한 변인 자료로 활용되는데 기여할 것이다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2021

Korean education in China began at Peking University in the 1950s. At present, The Korean language education in China has made remarkable progress in many aspects such as scale, scope, level and achievement. In addition, with the increasingly frequent economic and cultural exchanges or cooperation between China and South Korea and the increasing trend of internationalization, the prosperity of Korean wave culture and the sound development of China-South Korea relations, the country's demand for Korean language talents is increasing day by day. However, with the rise of Korean education in China in recent years, some hidden problems also surfaced. In this paper, the Korean language proficiency test(TOPIK) is used to evaluate the Korean language proficiency of Korean learners, and Chinese juniors are used to evaluate the Korean language proficiency. In addition, a questionnaire survey was conducted to analyze the learning media of Chinese Korean learners at the present stage, and the relationship between learning media and learning outcomes was concluded. At the same time, deficiencies and problems existed in Korean education in colleges and universities were proposed and their own ideas were put forward.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.523-542
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to figure out the procedure of learning Korean for international students. A research question was set up as follows: What is the procedure of leaning Korean for international students in Korean universities? To achieve the research purpose, this study implemented a method of semi-constructed interviews. Nineteen international students participated in the interview. The collected data for this study included transcripts from each interview. The transcripts of 60 minutes of interviews with all the participants was audio-taped recorded. This study investigated the research question based on the grounded theory. The analysis of open coding, axial-coding, and selective coding was used in the study. Results indicated that international students learned Korean in a daily basis, and then they adapted to academic Korean in their majored fields. Both personality and mother tongue influenced Korean language learning positively and negatively. International students' improvement of Korean was related in studying with Korean mass media such as TV soap dramas, talk shows, and songs. International students think that TOPIK(Test Of Proficiency In Korean) is not much related with their Korean language fluency. In conclusion, the researchers suggested to give more emphasis on academic training courses for Korean language and to improve the TOPIK in general academic Korean.