청소년 학습자 대상 한국어교육을 위한 관련 연구 동향 분석 - 비한국계 청소년을 중심으로 -

Along with an expanded interest in Korean, the number of adolescent Korean language learners has been increasing: as of February, 2020, about 145,000 learners in 1,635 secondary schools in 30 nations are taking Korean language classes. On top of that, if we include young people who learn Korean from online K-culture contents outside school, the number will rise more. So far, Korean language education has been mainly for immigrant youth (i.e. adolescents from foreign countries, multi-cultural families, and North Korea) and overseas adolescent Koreans. However, as many researchers now realize that systemic research on Korean language education for non-Korean adolescent is also needed, a lot of studies supported by the government are on-going. Reviewing research trends in Korean language education for the adolescent, this paper attempts to find a way that Korean language education for adolescent KFL learners would move forward. For this, 218 papers published in the last twenty years were reviewed, and 35 of them, the topics of which are adolescent KFL learners, are closely analyzed. As a result, it is turned out that research for practical curricula and materials for non-Korean adolescent Korean language learners is required. The primary research here means language knowledge (i.e. vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation), the four language skills, language development, and the analysis of affective variables.