The politics of teaching and learning writing in L1 and L2 in Korean universities: An exploration of the possibility of developing an indigenous writing program
Abstract
This dissertation investigates the practices and politics of college writing education in its first and second languages in an Expanding circle country, South Korea. Over the past 10 years, many Korean universities have developed their English and Korean writing programs and centers after a long period of no serious writing education. To investigate motivations and factors for these developments and changes at institutional, national, and international levels, various materials were collected and analyzed, ranging from teaching materials to education policy. A case study approach allowed an in-depth examination of two Korean universities' L1 and L2 writing education and professionalizing processes. Results show that educational policy, influenced by globalization and the internationalization of Korean higher education, has played an important role as a drive to push teaching and learning of written literacy. Korean colleges' formative efforts to develop an indigenous writing program and discipline are, to some extent, promising in that they have adjusted their practices to meet the needs emerging from the local context. Being in transition, however, their writing education and professionalizing are limited in that there is a lack of writing specialists and professional training programs, and they rely on the American composition classroom and scholarship. Suggestions for future development imply that students' individual performance needs to be examined from varied research angles and methodologies. For students, who are end users of such writing programs and centers, it is important to develop contents and curriculums, reflecting their realities in their local setting. The present study is an exploratory look, which introduces an aspect of Korean college writing education and professionalizing, expanding both L1 and L2 writing scholarship to a different place of the world outside North America.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Silva, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Language arts|Asian Studies|English as a Second Language|Rhetoric|Higher education
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