Level 1

Communication

COMMUNICATE IN LANGUAGE

 1.1 Interpersonal 1.2 Interpretive 1.3 Presentational
  • Students use and respond to simple speech acts such as greetings, leave takings, giving thanks and introducing oneself. 
  • Students engage in simple routine conversations on topics necessary for survival.
  • Students respond to direct questions and requests for information in highly predictable situations.
  • Students ask a few formulaic questions express personal meaning with memorized phrases.     
  • Students understand key words and formulaic phrases in highly predictable and contextualized texts.
  • Students understand short texts in familiar contexts by use of background knowledge and extra-linguistic support (e.g., a hotel bill, a credit card receipt, a weather map).
  • Students understand words and phrases from simple questions, statements, and high-frequency commands, typically requiring repetition, rephrasing or slow rate speech.
  • Students interpret gestures and other visual cues to understand the communicative intent (e.g., hand gesture of calling people). 
  • Students supply basic information on simple forms and documents.
  • Students convey very simple messages with practiced materials (e.g., lists, short messages, postcards, describing a series of pictures).
  • Students create simple sentences on very familiar topics by recombining learned vocabulary and structures. 

Culture

GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER CULTURES

 2.1 Practices 2.2 Products
  • Students use appropriate expressions and gestures for greetings, leave taking, and common classroom interactions.
  • Students demonstrate an awareness of the use of speech levels of the Korean language.
  • Students understand and demonstrate patterns of behaviors appropriate to different settings (e.g., using two hands for giving to and receiving from elders, Korean table manners).
  • Students recognize and understand Korean daily practices (e.g., removing shoes before entering homes, sitting and sleeping on the floor, bowing to elders).
  • Students participate in cultural activities (e.g., holiday celebrations, games) and show an understanding of their significance.
  • Students demonstrate an awareness of names of tangible products of Korean culture (e.g., songs, stories, artwork, crafts, food) as well as traditional games and sports.
  • Students identify both tangible products (e.g., clothing, household items, food) and expressive products (e.g., pop songs, folksongs, modern & traditional dances) of Korean culture.
  • Students participate in Korean traditional games, sports and cooking.

Connection

CONNECT WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES AND ACQUIRE INFORMATION

 3.1 Knowledge 3.2 viewpoints
  • Students demonstrate in Korean an understanding of basic information learned in other subject areas (e.g., weather, family structure, social interaction).
  • Students use Korean to share and present simple facts learned from other disciplines (e.g., geographical information, holiday celebrations).
  • Students talk in simple sentences about Korea obtained from other sources (e.g., Korean stories, songs, poems, contemporary events).

Comparison

DEVELOP INSIGHT INTO THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

 4.1 Language 4.2 Culture
  • Students perceive similarities and differences in the Korean sound system and that of their own language and pronounce Korean sounds in eligible manners. 
  • Students recognize similarities and differences between Korean writing system, Han’g?l, and their own writing system, and use Han’g?l for writing.
  • Students recognize the similarities and differences in word orders between Korean and their own language and use proper word orders.
  • Students understand and use forms of questions (i.e., sentence enders, intonation, and question words) and compare them to those in their own language.
  • Students understand and use the two number systems – native Korean and Sino-Korean – and proper usage of basic numeral counters.
  • Students understand that in Korean contextually recoverable elements can be omitted, and that pronouns are rarely used (names, kin terms and titles are used instead). 
  • Students recognize and understand basic logical relations (e.g., and-relation, so-relation, but-relation) and compare how these relations are expressed in Korean and in their own language.
  • Students recognize and compare the organizational principle in the Korean language of general-to-specific, and macro-to-micro with that of their own language (e.g., dates, mailing address, surname-given name).
  • Students identify frequently used loanwords borrowed from English and other foreign languages.
  • Students demonstrate awareness of honorific language in greetings, leave-taking and other situations and compare expressions of politeness in Korean and their own language.
  • Students compare and contrast products of the Korean culture and their own (e.g., food, songs, games, folktales, holiday celebrations) and use the Korean names of them.
  • Students identify interests and practices that they have in common with their Korean and Korean-American peers (e.g., video games, fast food, animation, popular culture, sports).
  • Students understand similarities and differences between Korean and their own cultures in regards to manners and daily routines in various situations (e.g., greetings, table manners, dwelling).
  • Students use words and phrases of Korean cultures in regards to manners, daily routines, interests and practices in various situations (e.g., greetings, table manners, showing respect for elders, K-pop, sports) in comparison with their own cultures.
  • Students understand how gestures and expression through physical contacts differ in Korean culture and their own cultures (e.g., bowing vs. waving, hugging).

Community

PARTICIPATE IN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITIES AT HOME & AROUND THE WORLD

 5.1 Beyond the school setting 5.2 Life-long learners
  • Students communicate on a personal level with speakers of the Korean language via a variety of media (e.g., writing simple letters, email, on daily activities to someone in Korean language community).
  • Students present information about Korea and the Korean language to others.
  • Students participate in a school or community celebration that involves Korea or Korean culture.
  • Students experience simple transactional situations in Korean community (e.g., shopping, ordering in restaurants, making phone calls).
  • Students participate in language programs in Korea.