개인 홈페이지를 활용한 국어 작문 교육에 대한 연구

Abstract

The Information Age has brought many changes in many aspects of modern society. In particular, the development of computer science and the Internet has made possible the communication of a massive amount of information in the form of hypertext. Moreover, the Internet has become an effective way of communicating information in various forms such as sound, multimedia, images and some combination of these. Such method of communication using hypertext has more advantages than the linear and simplistic method of communication and the advantages include variety, openness, changeability, multi-dimentionality.

Hypermedia has brought in some changes of communication style. Such advancement in the uses of Internet also means significant changes in Korean language education because it can offer learners of Korean as their first language another method to express themselves. This might indicate that Korean language educators need to be more sensitive to such changes and find ways to take the best use of the Internet

This study agrees with the idea of the attempt to integrate hypertext into Korean language education, and tries to examine some characteristics of hypertext writing and general writing. In addition, the study demonstrates how a Korean learner reacts to the writing instruction using hypertext not only as a learner but also as a writer. Furthermore, this study suggests some future directions in using hypertext and personal homepage on the Internet as a useful and effective way to improve Korean writing pedagogy.