이 논문은 2007년 개정 국어과 교육과정의 `맥락` 범주 도입의 긍정성을 살리기 위한 전략을 살펴본 것이다. 이런 전략을 위해 맥락의 개념을 재정리하고 맥락 따지기의 필요성과 맥락의 속성, 맥락의 구성요소, 맥락 따지기 전략 등을 제시하였다. 맥락 따지기의 필요성은 네 가지로 보았다. 다양한 사고력, 과학적 소통, 실천활동, 맥락적 의미를 통한 의미 구성의 중요성 등이다 이러한 맥락 따지기의 필요성은 맥락의 근본 속성에서 비롯된다고 보아, 그 속성을 "연계성, 근거성, 복합성, 역동성"으로 파악했다. 맥락의 구성 요소는 2007년 개정안의 맥락의 하위 범주를 바탕으로 "상황, 배경, 언어특성, 자료 매체"로 보았디 이렇게 맥락 따지기의 필요성과 속성, 구성 요소로 볼 때 맥락을 따지는 전략으로 "맥락촉발: 문제설정, 상황맥락 따지기, 배경맥락 따지기, 응용 맥락 따지기" 네 가지 단계별 전략에 따른 발문을 제시하였다.

This paper examined the strategy for bringing out the affirmative aspects of introducing the category of "context" in the 2007 Revised Korean Curriculum. For this strategy, the paper criticized the problem of understanding regarding context itself and discussed the attributes and components of context, as well as the context questioning needs and strategy. The issues of needs and attributes, which are quite important in context education, have not been adequately addressed in the curriculum manual and the existing studies on the category of context, and the issues of context sub-categories and components as well as the inadequacy of actual education strategy also have not been dealt with. To address all these issues, the paper proposed a comprehensive measure based on a "context of context" perspective. The context questioning needs were seen as four categories: diverse thinking power, scientific communication, active practice, and importance of meaning effect based on contextual meaning. These context questioning needs were seen as emerging from the basic attributes of context, and such attributes were determined to be "connectivity, ground(basis), complexity, and dynamics." Based on the sub-categories of context for the 2007 revised plan, the components of context were seen to be "circumstance, background, language characteristic, and text (medium)." Based on these needs, attributes and components of context questioning, the strategy for context questioning was proposed as a four-step strategy of "problem set up, situation-context set up, background-context set up, and meaning."