Level 2

Communication

COMMUNICATE IN LANGUAGE

 1.1 Interpersonal 1.2 Interpretive 1.3 Presentational
  • Students participate in simple conversations on generally predictable topics related to daily activities and personal environment (e.g., campus life, health and exercises, classes, socialization).
  • Students handle a limited number of uncomplicated communication tasks in straightforward social situation (e.g., planning an activity or outing).
  • Students respond to requests for personal information and questions about immediate needs.
  • Students ask simple questions to obtain information for basic needs, make requests, and negotiate simple exchanges.
  • Students express personal meaning (e.g., preferences, interests) in short statements and discrete sentences.
  • Students understand some information from reading simplest connected texts dealing with a limited number of personal and social needs.
  • Students identity the main characters and storylines of illustrated stories using contextual and visual cues.
  • Students understand some information from sentence-length speech in basic personal and social contexts, relying heavily on redundancy, restatement and contextual clues.
  • Students interpret intonation and high frequency sentence enders to identity the function of an utterance (e.g., request, offer, exclamation). 
  • Students write or speak about personal information and well-known and rehearsed content (e.g., skits, rewriting songs, telling anecdotes).  
  • Students express meaning by combining and  recombining known elements and conversational input
  • Students use a few short and simple conversational-style sentences with repetitive structure and elementary vocabulary.

Culture

GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER CULTURES

 2.1 Practices 2.2 Products
  • Students demonstrate an awareness of common social customs in the Korean community (e.g., visiting somebody’s home, eating out).
  • Students demonstrate an understanding of Korean cultural practices related to birthday milestones and holiday customs. 
  • Students identify and interpret gestures, intonation, and different speech levels, and other non-verbal features.
  • Students use appropriate speech levels in conversation (e.g., polite vs. deferential, intimate vs. plain) and kinship terms and titles to address and refer to people.
  • Students demonstrate an understanding of unique Korean cultural practices and share their experiences (e.g., leisure activities, college life).
  • Students experience, explore, and describe tangible and intangible Korean cultural products that reflect daily life (e.g., food, clothing, dwelling, and leisure activities).  
  • Students explore Korean music and performances in which they are interested.

Connection

CONNECT WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES AND ACQUIRE INFORMATION

 3.1 Knowledge 3.2 viewpoints
  • Students expand their knowledge through Korean, of other subject areas (e.g., geography, environment)
  • Students obtain information in English and/or Korean through various sources (e.g., the internet, online dictionary, news media) on familiar topics.
  • Students present simple reports orally and/or in writing, on topics being studied in other courses and activities (e.g., music, art, travel, study-abroad experience).

Comparison

DEVELOP INSIGHT INTO THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

 4.1 Language 4.2 Culture
  • Students recognize different ways of indicating semantic (recipient, goal, source, location, instrument, etc.) and grammatical (subject and object) relations of nouns with predicates between Korean and their own language.
  • Students recognize and compare how to express in Korean and in their own language modal meanings (e.g.,   ability, obligation, permission, intention, volition, certainty, doubt, information source, epistemic status of information conveyed, promise).
  • Students understand various relations between clauses (e.g., enumeration, sequence and sequential development, reason/cause, rhetorical ground, background circumstance, shift of momentum) and compare how these clausal relations are expressed in Korean and in their own language.
  • Students understand how participant relations (e.g., age, kin relation, and social status) and communication settings (e.g., formal and informal) feature in Korean and their own language.  
  • Students demonstrate awareness of some collocations and onomatopoeia in the Korean language distinct from their own.
  • Students understand that events and states of affairs can be either ongoing or static, and recognize the respective linguistic forms in Korean and in their own language (e.g., –? ?? and ~? ?? in Korean).
  • Students compare aspects of Korean and their own daily life in various contexts (e.g., school schedules, weekend activities, vacations).
  • Students compare and contrast the uses and functions of public facilities and services in Korea with their own culture (e.g., public transportation, market, hospitals, postal and delivery services).
  • Students compare and contrast patterns of behavior and social trends of Korean college students and their own manifested in school and recreational activities (e.g., interaction with teachers, school schedule, fashion, extra-curricular activities, social gatherings).
  • Students compare and contrast cultural practices on traditional holidays in Korea with those of their own.

Community

PARTICIPATE IN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITIES AT HOME & AROUND THE WORLD

 5.1 Beyond the school setting 5.2 Life-long learners
  • Students communicate in Korean to carry out simple tasks with Korean people outside of the classroom.
  • Students express their preferences concerning leisure activities and current events in written form or orally, with peers who speak Korean.
  • Students give performances such as skits, song contests, or story-telling for a school or community.
  • Students organize Korean cultural events or social activities.
  • Students attend or view via media cultural events and social activities.
  • Students make a plan to travel to Korea.