A Study on Korean Grammar Teaching in Vietnam Universities and Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Korean with Vietnamese Language

Abstract

Since 1994 when HoChiMinh National University established Korean Studies Department and began to study and teach Korean studies, Korean Language Teaching methods and interests have been developed rapidly and popularly among teachers and students. At present in Vietnam, nine Universities are running Korean Studies Department four year bachelor(B.A) course and other five Universities are teaching Korean Language as an optional foreign language in their course. Korean Language in Vietnam Universities is being studied and taught in four sections : Speaking, listening, Writing and Reading. At the first stage when Korean Studies Department was just established and opened, Korean Grammar was taught mainly during the writing class. It was not separated yet at the first stage. But nowadays in the most of all the Vietnam Universities, they are teaching Korean Grammar as an independent and separated subject. This more that they recognize Grammatical Competence is very important in Korean Language Learning and also Korean Language learners are much needy for grammatical knowledge