Level 4

Communication

COMMUNICATE IN LANGUAGE

 1.1 Interpersonal 1.2 Interpretive 1.3 Presentational
  • Students participate in conversations on topics related to work, school, recreation, cultural interests and areas of competence (e.g., educational system, jobs and careers, stories and films).
  • Students handle successfully uncomplicated communication tasks and social situations requiring an exchange of information about content area topics.
  • Students narrate and describe, sometimes using connected discourse of paragraph length in a minimally cohesive discourse. 
  • Students understand and express opinions on concrete topics.
  • Students can be understood by native speakers unfamiliar with non-native speakers.    
  • Students fully understand simple and straightforward texts conveying basic information dealing with personal and social topics.
  • Students understand descriptive and narrative texts with a clear underlying structure and containing high-frequency vocabulary and structure.
  • Students understand characters, plots, themes and underlying perspectives of cultural texts (e.g., folk tales, stories about historical figures, proverbs).
  • Students understand the main facts and some supporting details in connected oral discourse featuring conventional narratives and descriptions.  
  • Students write compositions and simple summaries related to work and school experiences (e.g., an autobiographical essay, an introduction letter, a summary of a movie plot, a report on a campus event or issue).
  • Students narrate and describe with ease in different time frames about everyday events and situations organized in well-constructed paragraphs. 

Culture

GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER CULTURES

 2.1 Practices 2.2 Products
  • Students understand and use the basic significance of proverbs and idiomatic expressions commonly appearing in everyday interactions.
  • Students demonstrate an understanding of, discuss, and present on cultural generalizations and stereotypes.
  • Students understand unique aspects of the Korean language, such as idiomatic expressions (e.g., four-syllable proverbs), by analyzing the socio-historical origin, modern-day usage, and meanings of such expressions in written and oral texts.
  • Students identify, understand, and discuss the uniqueness of Korean culture that receives worldwide recognition.
  • Students experience and understand expressive products of Korean culture including Korean film, literature, and performance and explore ways in which these products reflect Korean people’s lifestyles, beliefs, and values.
  • Students understand themes, ideas, and perspectives related to Korean cultural products.
  • Students discuss Korean arts and identify and analyze the various symbolic components in these products.
  • Students identify and describe works of Korean folktales, and short stories.

Connection

CONNECT WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES AND ACQUIRE INFORMATION

 3.1 Knowledge 3.2 viewpoints
  • Students combine information from other subject areas with information available in Korean about topics of general interests (e.g., political and historical events, health issues, environmental concerns).
  • Students understand and discuss in Korean simple cultural, historical, and literary texts.
  • Students do research, acquiring information from a variety of sources (e.g. library data, tables, graphs) and present reports orally and/or in writing on contemporary issues.

Comparison

DEVELOP INSIGHT INTO THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

 4.1 Language 4.2 Culture
  • Students analyze elements of the Korean language, such as time, tense, and aspects, and comparable linguistic elements in English to understand various representations of events.
  • Students analyze elements of complex sentence structure of the Korean language and comparable elements in English, and recognize different ways of indicating main and subordinate events.
  • Students understand and use reported speech of various kinds including those indicating different cognitive modes (e.g., thought, belief, presumed knowledge)
  • Students demonstrate an understanding of different registers (e.g., casualness, distance, courtesy, disapproval, dislike) rendered by different speech styles and lexical choices.
  • Students demonstrate understanding of a variety of Korean mimetic vocabulary (i.e., sound-imitating and manner-symbolic words).
  • Students analyze, discuss, and understand Korean cultural perspectives regarding familial and generational relationships manifested in respect for elders, importance of birth order, family responsibilities and duties, parental sacrifice for children and filial obligations in comparison with their own cultural perspectives.
  • Students compare and contrast in detail the significance of proverbs and idiomatic expressions used in Korean culture with the use in their own culture. 
  • Students compare and contrast the various symbolic components included in Korean artistic products with those of 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 listen to guest speakers from Korea or local Korean community about various aspects of Korean culture.
  • Students investigate the history of the local Korean community through research of literature, materials and oral interviews.
  • Students engage in community services and share opinions about the activities.
  • Students communicate orally or in writing with members of the Korean language community on topics such as social, economic, political, or historical issues.
  • Students explore to further their careers that require advanced proficiency in Korean (e.g., internships, positions in local companies).