A Study on Anxiety and Factors of Anxiety in Korean Contemporary Poetry Reading by Chinese Learners –For Advanced Level of Korean Learners in China–

This study focuses on advanced learners who are learning contemporary Korean poetry in China, and identifies the characteristics of their anxiety in reading modern Korean poetry, revealing the factors that cause anxiety, and identifies the pattern of anxiety regarding poetry reading according to various learner variables under each factor. The purpose of this study is to derive educational proposals necessary for the education of contemporary Korean poetry in China. In this study, 34 undergraduate students and 20 graduate students, a total of 54 learners, were selected as subjects in the Korean language department at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China, and their anxiety in reading modern Korean poetry was measured through questionnaires and post-interviews. As a result of the study, a total of six factors of anxiety were extracted, and the pattern of the anxiety, according to learner variables under each anxiety factor, was examined. Additionally, the level of anxiety in Chinese learners’ reading poetry was divided into three categories of ‘severe-moderate-mild anxiety’, and whether there was a difference in the level of anxiety felt by learners, according to the level of anxiety within the six factors of anxiety, was measured. Finally, through multiple regression analysis, factors of anxiety affecting reading anxiety in modern poetry were examined. (Dalian University of Foreign Languages)