A Consideration on Writing Education and Teaching Materials for Academic Purpose Foreign Students

The aim of this paper is to examine the characteristics of writing teaching curriculum for academic purpose foreign students, the status of writing teaching materials and future teaching material development plans. In order to investigate the characteristics of writing teaching curriculums, the course objectives of writing curriculums in many universities with a lot of foreign students for academic purposes were examined and they were compared with the course objectives of Korean language curriculums. Also, 7 kinds of teaching materials used in writing curriculums for foreigners in universities were analyzed and based on the analysis result, the contents of a writing curriculum for academic purpose foreign students were suggested. For this study, Chapter 2 considers class syllabuses of major universities running writing curriculums for academic purpose foreign students and compares them with ‘writing-focused’ curriculum or ‘composition’ curriculum in Korean liberal arts. Based on the result, the orientation and the contents of a writing curriculum for academic purpose foreign students were investigated and the differences between writing-focused curriculum and other writing curriculum were described. Chapter 3 presents the contents of a writing curriculum for academic purpose foreign students, based on the examination of Chapter 2 and compares with the existing contents of writing curriculums.