Gyeongnam Provincial Office of Education Practices Multicultural Education That Takes 'One Step Closer'

Gyeongnam Office of Education Develops and Distributes Multilingual Online Content for Multicultural Students

Gyeongnam Office of Education is conducting multilingual online content classes for multicultural students. (Photo by Gyeongnam Office of Education)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kang Sharon] The Gyeongsangnam-do Office of Education is receiving positive responses by practicing multicultural education that gets one step closer to multicultural students.

Due to the increase in remote classes caused by the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), multicultural students from immigrant families and foreign families faced greater difficulties in learning.

Accordingly, the office supports ‘Wise Korean Language Exploration Life’ and the ‘Multilingual Subtitle Provision Type’ of e-Learning Center’s elementary school curriculum content for self-directed Korean language education and subject learning.

‘Wise Korean Language Exploration Life’ is remote education content for immigrant and foreign family students who need Korean language education, consisting of 30 basic lessons and 30 advanced lessons.

In addition to Korean, it is dubbed in four languages (Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian, Mongolian) and can be conveniently used on ‘iTalkTalk’ and ‘e-Learning Center’.

Existing remote Korean language education content was presented only in Korean or only with multilingual subtitles, causing difficulties in learning.

This content, developed in a dubbing format, enhances learning effectiveness by allowing students who are not proficient in Korean to learn Korean using their native language.

The multilingual translated subtitles of e-Learning Center’s elementary school curriculum content cover five subjects (Korean, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, English) for grades 3 to 6, translated into six languages, providing a total of 404 episodes.

By supporting subject learning in multiple languages, it contributes to improving basic academic skills of multicultural students and can be easily accessed in the e-Learning Center’s city/province specialized content.

Kim Young-mi, a teacher at Gimhae Hap-sung Elementary School who uses ‘Wise Korean Language Exploration Life’ in her classes, said, “Multicultural students encountering Korean for the first time are more interested in learning and actively participating by using the dubbing-type Korean education videos and workbooks centered on school life.”

Hong Jeong-hee, Director of Curriculum, said, “We plan to do our best in developing and supporting Korean language education content and multilingual subject education materials,” adding, “By providing educational materials linked with the multilingual support function of iTalkTalk subject videos, we will realize education that gets one step closer.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.