Um estudo piloto para entender como aprender coreano pode ser facilitado para bilíngues (L1 português e L2 inglês)

Abstract

It is natural that illiteracy, or the difficulty of learning to read and write, has become a major worry in the modern technological age. Because of the seriousness of the problem, researchers from a wide range of domains, including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and education, are pursuing literacy acquisition in their studies. This research intends to analyze the literacy process of the Korean language by English speakers who speak Brazilian Portuguese as their first language. As such, it is a study in applied linguistics that focuses on the process of acquiring an Asian language, in this case, learning how to read and write the Korean alphabet, Hangul, as well as the multilingualism of the participants' context. The study will follow two stages, the first being a basic Korean language course divided into 6 video segments. The videos introduce the letters of the alphabet and their respective pronunciations, along with activities to memorize the letters and vocabulary. After the introductory literacy process in Korean, an experiment with a Lexical Decision Task will be conducted with the participants to evaluate their vocabulary acquisition and accuracy in reading/writing words. Therefore, the present study is also relevant for documenting and identifying the facilities and difficulties of the literacy process in the Korean language to broaden the understanding of this cognitive process and can serve as an aid for future research.