Definition of Multicultural Family
= married immigrant / a person who received citizenship
+ a person who acquired nationality at birth
따오
Vietnamese mother, 30
Middle school graduate
Difficulties in communicating with Koreans
순이
Daughter, 10
Target for bullies
Hard to keep up with school education
Spent a lot of time alone
권순호
Father, 46
High school
and her husband are married on 15th May 2000. Ttao is from Vietnam and she is graduated from middle school. She came to Korea to earn money and worked at factory where she met her husband. She came to Korea at an early age, she is missing her home. She goes to Multicultural Family Center to learn Korean once a week; it is hard to improve it. She is not good at Korean grammar and pronunciation.
Acculturation hypothesis
“ the degree of acculturation toward the ‘model’ language group seems to be the primary consideration in attempting to account for the varied levels of linguistic achievement reached by second language learners”
Korean Wes
Literacy Ability (reading, writing) Grammar skill High Low
Communication skills
(listening, speaking) Low High
of the language used in the textbook are being used frequently in a daily life.
⑤ Topics, situations, contexts, and activities are appropriate for the learners.
⑥ Only activity book is appropriate for each level of the students. The textbook does not consider the proficiency level of each student. It covers general texts and activities. To complement this limitation, the activity book in
language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.
What is our subject?
We want to tell you about the bilingual education of multicultural family in Korea.
Who ever mother or father, if they come from other countries, they face to language problem.
They want to teach their own language and also want to teach Korean.
But there are many problems. Now