Efficiency and Direction of Overseas Korean Peer Tutoring: Focusing on Korean Language Learners in Taiwan

This study aimed to explore the efficiency and direction of Overseas Korean Peer tutoring (OKPT) for Korean language learners. Peer tutoring is a learning assistance activity in which a tutor who has previously studied helps a tutee. Since OKPT involves students who want to have cultural exchanges or improve their Korean language skills, most of the participants were able to achieve positive results. Tutees can learn Korean with native Korean speakers, and tutors can receive help to adapt to the overseas environment and culture. However, in Korean peer tutoring, tutees expect tutors to be experts rather than peers, and they prefer directive tutoring. Although tutors are native Korean speakers, they have limited help because they do not have specialized knowledge of Korean. Therefore, the assignment organization should harmoniously operate external and internal systems. Tutors need to be provided with Korean language education-related materials and supplementary education, and training is needed to provide tutees with the function of indirect tutoring.