- Overview
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Interest in Korean as a foreign language is increasing. But there are hardly any Korean language grammar books for foreigners. Until recently, most Korean grammar books were for middle and high school students in Korea. These grammar books are not approriate for foreigers because they are designed for those who speak Korean as their mother tongue and focuses on teaching grammar rules. But foreigners need a grammar book that can help to produce grammatical Korean sentences. School grammar is analysis-oriented. But grammar for foreigners is integration-oriented. Unlike native speakers, who have intuiton to mother tongue, it is difficult for foreign learners to tell a grammatical sentence from an ungrammatical one. Foreigners need more detailed explanations. As such, grammar teaching should be about teaching how to form a correct sentence. In other words, a grammar book should explain what grammatical elements are needed in order to form a grammatical sentence. This book is a Korean language standard grammar dictionary published by the National Institute of Korean Language through 5-years of research of Korean language experts. This book explains the Korean language's unique characteristics from the perspective of universality and contrastive linguistics. And to improve the foreigner's understanding, Korean grammar is explained with a different perspective than existing ones. In Grammar for Foreigners 2: Usage, the usage of 900 main headwords and 500 sub-headwords is described in detail. A learner can easily learn how postpositional particles, word endings and auxiliary predicates are changed, which confuse Korean language learners because the form and usage vary depending on the language context.
- Book Intro
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Interest in Korean as a foreign language is increasing. But there are hardly any Korean language grammar books for foreigners. Until recently, most Korean grammar books were for middle and high school students in Korea. These grammar books are not approriate for foreigers because they are designed for those who speak Korean as their mother tongue and focuses on teaching grammar rules. But foreigners need a grammar book that can help to produce grammatical Korean sentences.
School grammar is analysis-oriented. But grammar for foreigners is integration-oriented. Unlike native speakers, who have intuiton to mother tongue, it is difficult for foreign learners to tell a grammatical sentence from an ungrammatical one. Foreigners need more detailed explanations. As such, grammar teaching should be about teaching how to form a correct sentence. In other words, a grammar book should explain what grammatical elements are needed in order to form a grammatical sentence.
This book is a Korean language standard grammar dictionary published by the National Institute of Korean Language through 5-years of research of Korean language experts.
This book explains the Korean language's unique characteristics from the perspective of universality and contrastive linguistics. And to improve the foreigner's understanding, Korean grammar is explained with a different perspective than existing ones.
In Grammar for Foreigners 2: Usage, the usage of 900 main headwords and 500 sub-headwords is described in detail. A learner can easily learn how postpositional particles, word endings and auxiliary predicates are changed, which confuse Korean language learners because the form and usage vary depending on the language context.
- About the Author
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National Institute of Korean Language
(English) It’s an organization that promotes research projects that helps improve the development of the Korean language and the language life of the people and lays the foundation for systematic policymaking. It conducts systematic research and studies to promote reasonable Korean language policies and enhance the convenience of the nation’s language life by complementing and organizing the language norms and strengthening integrated information services after collecting national language resources. It also develops and provides Korean language education materials.
(Japanese) 韓国語の発展と国民の言語生活を向上させる研究事業を推進し、体系的な政策樹立の基盤を整える機関である。合理的な国語政策の推進に必要な体系的な調査と研究を行い、言語規範を補完・整備し、国家言語資源を収集して統合情報サービスを強化することで、国民の言語生活の便益を増進する。国民が円滑にコミュニケーションできるように韓国語使用環境を改善し、韓国語教育の質を高める基盤を造成する。韓国語教育資料を開発・普及する。
(Vietnamese) Đây là một tổ chức thúc đẩy các dự án nghiên cứu nhằm cải thiện sự phát triển của ngôn ngữ Hàn Quốc và đời sống ngôn ngữ của người dân, đồng thời đặt nền tảng cho việc thiết lập chính sách có hệ thống. Tiến hành nghiên cứu có hệ thống và cần thiết để thúc đẩy chính sách ngôn ngữ Hàn Quốc hợp lý, bổ sung và cải thiện các chuẩn mực ngôn ngữ, thu thập tài nguyên ngôn ngữ quốc gia, và tăng cường các dịch vụ thông tin tích hợp để nâng cao sự thuận tiện của đời sống ngôn ngữ quốc gia. Nghiên cứu giúp cải thiện môi trường tiếng Hàn để mọi người có thể giao tiếp thuận lợi và tạo nền tảng nâng cao chất lượng giáo dục tiếng Hàn. Xây dựng và phát hành tài liệu giáo dục tiếng Hàn.
