Practices and Suggestions for the Translation of the Korean-Turkish Learning Dictionary for Turkish Learners
The Korean Society Of Bilingualism, Muhammet Emre KORKMAZ, Ozlem Gokce Gokce, Eunmi Yu · 2024
The purpose of this study is to share a case study of the translation of a learning Korean-Turkish dictionary for Turkish learners and to reveal the need to develop a step-by-step dictionary for the future development of Korean language education in Türkiye. In 1989, the Department of Korean Language and Literature was established at Ankara University, and research related to Korean language and Korean studies has been continuously developed. In 2017, the Ministry of Education in Türkiye adopted Korean language as a second foreign language in high schools, opening the door for Korean language education in high schools. The need for Korean textbooks, dictionaries, and other learning materials for high school students is even more urgent. In this context, the current status of Korean language education in Türkiye is presented, along with the current status of dictionaries for Türkiye learners published to date, and the features of the Korean-Turkish online dictionary translated for Turkish learners are analysed by comparing it with the Korean Basic Dictionary which is developed by National Institute of Korean Language. Through the translation briefing process at the start, we summarised the translation process, the actual translation process, and the process of selecting notations, headings, with example sentences in consideration of the social and cultural background of high school students in Türkiye who will use the Korean-Turkish learning dictionary.