Level 3

Communication

COMMUNICATE IN LANGUAGE

1.1 Interpersonal 1.2 Interpretive 1.3 Presentational
  • Students participate with ease in most informal and some formal conversations on topics related to school and leisure activities and popular culture (e.g., careers, fashion, entertainment, sports).
  • Students handle a variety of uncomplicated communication tasks in straightforward social situations involving predictable and concrete exchanges (e.g., personal information, physical and social needs).
  • Students ask a variety of questions to obtain simple information related to school, recreation and particular interests.
  • Students use with ease multiple modes of communication, conventional and digital (e.g., letters, email, text-messaging, SNS).
  • Students express personal meaning (e.g., ideas, feelings, emotions) creatively in strings of sentences and can be understood by sympathetic interlocutors.    
  • Students understand basic information from short, non-complex texts dealing with topics of personal interest or prior knowledge (e.g., announcements, notices, online bulletin boards and forums).
  • Students understand short descriptive and narrative texts on familiar topics. 
  • Students understand speech organized in simple paragraphs both in personal and social contexts.
  • Students derive substantial meaning from oral discourse that is straightforward and organized in a clear and predictably way. 
  • Students write short, simple communications, compositions and requests for information about personal preferences,common events and other personal topics (e.g., descriptions of procedures such as cooking or rules for games, journals, activity reports).
  • Students communicate simple facts and ideas in a series of loosely connected sentences with some attempts to organize their ideas in paragraphs.

Culture

GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER CULTURES

2.1 Practices 2.2 Products
  • Students understand and discuss Korean cultural practices related to traditional and contemporary forms of special rites (e.g., wedding, funeral).
  • Students recognize contributions from Korean cultures in areas such as art, music, film, fashion or science.
  • Students identify and understand the uniqueness of Korean culture that receives worldwide recognition.
  • Students observe and demonstrate an understanding of Korean superstitions and their manifestation in the lives of Korean people (e.g., eating traditional taffy on college examination day, avoiding writing one’s name in red).
  • Students discuss and understand the significance of the products of Korean culture that reflect daily life (e.g., food, clothing, dwelling, leisure activities) and traditional and modern artifacts.
  • Students read materials about internationally known Korean athletes, musicians, and artists, identify their specific talents, and analyze the types of influences of Korean culture that these celebrities bring to their fields.

Connection

CONNECT WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES AND ACQUIRE INFORMATION

3.1 Knowledge 3.2 viewpoints
  • Students exchange information in Korean about concrete topics from other subject areas (e.g., history, geography, science, arts).
  • Students understand unique aspects of Korean culture, history, and arts.
  • Students acquire information through authentic materials, pertaining to Korean practices in cultural and social matters (e.g., pop-culture, travel, shopping, advertisement).
  • Students present simple reports orally and/or in writing, on topics of general interest and topics being studied in other courses.

Comparison

DEVELOP INSIGHT INTO THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

4.1 Language 4.2 Culture
  • Students understand and recognize nuances and speaker stances expressed by such auxiliary forms as -? ??, -? ??, -? ???, -? ??, and compare how they are expressed in their own language.
  • Students understand different use of politeness strategies in Korean using various indirect forms and compare them with those of their own language.
  • Students recognize and understand various rhetorical relations (e.g., enumeration of parallels, grounds for argumentation, adversatives) and different kinds of cohesive linguistic devices utilized in Korean and in their own language.
  • Students recognize register distinctions between written and colloquial languages, and compare grammatical forms and vocabulary used in each register.
  • Students discuss cultural treasures of Korea and their symbolic meanings in comparison with and contrast to their own culture
  • Students compare and contrast Korean cultural practices related to special rites (e.g., wedding, funeral) with their own culture.
  • Students compare and contrast Korean folk beliefs and practices and their manifestation in the lives of Korean people with their own culture.

Community

PARTICIPATE IN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITIES AT HOME & AROUND THE WORLD

5.1 Beyond the school setting 5.2 Life-long learners
  • Students read authentic materials and/or media from Korea for enjoyment.
  • Students consult various sources in Korean to obtain information on topics of personal interests.
  • Students interview members of Korean community regarding topics of personal interest, community, or the world.
  • Students participate in a career exploration or school-to-work project that requires intermediate proficiency in Korean.