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Hyeon-Hwa Kang

Yonsei University

About the Lab

Professor Hyeon-Hwa Kang's research lab specializes in Korean language education, with a strong focus on discourse analysis, vocabulary instruction, and culture education for foreign learners. Her work explores the evolution of research trends in Korean language education over the past decade, emphasizing in-depth, empirical studies in lexical semantics, discourse structures, and pragmatic expressions such as complaints. The lab also investigates pedagogical approaches to developing culturally relevant teaching materials, particularly for international students, aiming to bridge language learning with authentic cultural understanding.

discourse analysisvocabulary educationculture educationpragmaticsKorean as a second language

Research Overview

Papers
95
Total Citations
1,060
Papers (5y)
22
Primary Field

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
22total
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Citations per year (5y)
10total
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Selected Papers

15
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Article|88 citations·2010
한국어교육학 연구의 최신 동향 및 전망
강현화

The purpose of this study is to analyze the performance of Korean education by field of study over the past ten years and assess the latest trend of Korean education and research to explore the future direction. In particular, research focus has been made on chronological and thematic analyses. According to previous studies, it is noticeable that there have been improvement in research quality in terms of the contents of the research, not to mention growth made in terms of quantity in various ar

2
Article|51 citations·2006
외국인 학습자의 문화 요구조사 - 문화교재 개발을 위해 -
강현화

Kang, Hyounhwa. 2006. A study on cultural needs of foreign learners. Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language, 31, 99~128. The purpose of this study is to conduct a preliminary research for development of culture textbooks that are suitable for foreign learners studying in the Korean colleges. This research does not intend to make textbooks that are used as a means of teaching language or a combination of language and cultures but focuses on instruction on culture itself. Therefore, foreign learner

3
Article|47 citations·2012
한국어교육학에서의 담화 연구 분석
강현화

The aim of this study is to observe the trend of discourse study in language education and analyze the main issues by investigating the literatures related to discourse in Korean language education in the last ten years. This study observed the discourse study conducted in Korean language education from the perspectives of study subject, study method and study data. Moreover, based on the results, it estimated the achievements and effectiveness of the discourse study conducted in Korean language

4
Article|46 citations·2010
문화교수의 쟁점을 통해서 본 문화교수의 방향성 모색
강현화

Kang Hyoun hwa. 2010. A Study on a New Direction of Culture Education: By Discussion of Controviersial Issues on Current Culture Education. Journal of the International Network for Korean Language and Culture. Vol. 7-1. 1-30. This study attempts to investigate several issues featured in Korean culture education and suggest a future direction in which cultural education should be oriented within the context of language education. In this paper, the following results are obtained by analyzing the

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Article|33 citations·2011
한국어 어휘 교육 연구방법론 동향 분석
강현화

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Korean lexical education methodology based on 544 recent research papers. The findings can be summarized as follows: First, the contents-related studies account for the overwhelming 81%(440 papers) of the entire research compared to the teaching-related studies that takes up the remaining 19%(104 papers) of the research. Second, among the contents-related studies, the substantially majority of research has been do

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Article|32 citations·2009
한국어교육을 위한 불평표현 문형연구-불평화행과 인용표현의 관계를 중심으로-
강현화, 황미연

The purpose of this study is to investigate the complaint pragmatics that have not received much interest in Korean language research. For this purpose, this study first categorizes the sentence patterns that represent complaint expressions. It seems very important for Korean language teaching to present the examples of complaint in Korean context and to categorize individual sentence patterns according to different implications of complaint. This study then conducts a cognizant test by native s

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Article|30 citations·2008
어휘접근적 문법교수를 위한 표현문형의 화행기능 분석 -‘-어야 하다/되다’를 사례로-
강현화

The purpose of this study is to construct a database which analyses a correlation between communicative functions and grammatical patterns for effective teaching of communicative functions. Based upon the case study about the ending forms including ‘-어야 하다/되다’, I conduct a corpus analysis to investigate sematic, syntactic and pragmatic characteristics of their expressions. Using a spoken corpus, I especially attempt to examine a correlation between pattern expressions appeared in daily conversat

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Article|29 citations·2008
‘-을걸’의 특성과 후회표현의 양상
강현화

The purpose of this study is to construct a database which analyses a correlation between ‘so called regret expression‘ communicative functions and grammatical patterns for effective teaching. Based upon the case study about the ending forms including ‘-ulgeol’, This paper conduct a corpus analysis to investigate semantic, syntactic and pragmatic characteristics of their expressions. Using a spoken corpus, This paper especially attempt to examine a correlation between pattern expressions appeare

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Article|28 citations·2008
한국어교육학 내용학의 발전 방향 모색
강현화

The purpose of this study is to identify the current state of Korean education and to classify its fields of contents research. This study also analyses the previous research and curriculums, and suggests the research programs for further development of contents research. This research can be applied to construction of textbooks and instructer training. In addition, it provides a solid background for development of effective teaching and learning methods. Along with an academic exchange between

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Article|25 citations·2012
한국어교육에서의 담화 기반 문법 연구 - 부정 표현의 맥락 문법을 활용하여
강현화

The purpose of this article is to study the patteㄴrn of grammar in context and to use this for Korean language teaching. The corpus used in this study is made up of semi-spoken corpus and 21st century Sejong balance corpus. The semi-spoken corpus consists of information based on drama and movie. The procedure is numbered as (1) ‘-지 않다’, ‘-지 못하다’ analyzes corpus using sentence expression as keyword and lists it. (2) The sentence expression is tagged by seven categories;Speaker, listener, (the rel

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Article|25 citations·2011
한국 문화 교육 항목 선정에 관한 기초 연구 - 선행연구, 교재, 기관 현황 조사 자료의 비교를 통하여 -
강현화, 홍혜란

This article is a foundational research on selecting the items of Korean culture education. It aims to examine how the theory and practice of Korean culture education differ to grope for its further directions. To attain this goal, this paper conducted comparative analysis on 144 advanced studies, total 6-type, 36 textbooks and 18 culture-specialized textbooks of chief universities’ annex Korean education institutes having published all of the beginning, intermediate, and advanced-level textbook

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Article|24 citations·2009
코퍼스에 기반한 ‘-잖다’의 화행적 특성 고찰
강현화

Kang, Hyoun-Hwa. 2009. A study on teaching method of discourse function of ‘-canhta’. Korean Semantic, 28. This study investigates the differences between the negative expression ‘-지 않다’ and its reduced form ‘-잖다’ in terms of phonetic, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The purpose of this study is to suggest more efficient pragmatic instruction method for Korean language teaching. In this purpose, this study employs the corpus analysis to investigate the differences between ‘-지

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Article|21 citations·2009
최신 문법교수 이론의 경향과 한국어교육에의 적용
강현화

This study reviews the latest grammar teaching theories and discusses its applications to Korean grammar teaching. It finds that the current trend in grammar teaching studies is shifting from written grammar to spoken grammar, changing from sentence-based grammar to discourse-based grammar, and adopting a discourse approach rather than a lexical approach. In addition, this study demonstrates that the grammar teaching study focus more on form within communicative approach. This study is able to c

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Article|20 citations·2011
한국 문화 교수요목 설계 방안 연구 - 세종학당학습자를 위한 원형적 교수요목 개발을 중심으로 -
강현화

Considering that it is difficult to standardize cultural characteristics as a single coherent system, this study attempts to design a Korean culture syllabus that takes into account such aspects as cultural characteristics, teaching places and the idiosyncrasy of the field. First, we use a basic research results such as analysis of teaching materials and previous studies as well as learner needs analysis. Based on this, we design a weighted scoring system, select the final culture education item

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Article|20 citations·2011
다문화 관련 한국어교육학 연구의 쟁점
강현화

본고는 다문화 관련 한국어교육학 연구의 성과를 점검하고 향후 바람직한 연구 방향성을 제시하는 것을 목적으로 했다. 첫째, 연구사 전반에 걸쳐 시대별 연구의 추이를 진단해 보고, 다음으로는 연구 주제별로 양적 분포를 점검해 보고자 했다. 시대별로는 2006년을 시작으로 하여 2008-2011까지 급격한 양적 팽창을 보였으나, 대상별 연구가 다문화아동과 이주여성에 주로 치우치는 경향이 있었다. 둘째로는 연구사에 나타난 쟁점들을 중심으로 개별 연구에 나타난 연구 결과의 성과를 가늠해 보았는데, 다문화 관련 연구는 일반 연구에 비해 상대적으로 내용학 중심의 기초 연구가 매우 부족했음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 기초 연구보다는 정책이나 현황 연구가 많아서 향후 기초 연구의 필요성이 절실했다.

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