Level 5

Communication

COMMUNICATE IN LANGUAGE

 1.1 Interpersonal 1.2 Interpretive 1.3 Presentational
  • Students participate actively in informal and formal conversations on a variety of topics including employment, current events and matters of public and community interest (e.g., educational system, communication technology, consumerism). 
  • Students narrate and describe using connected discourse of paragraph length.
  • Students control basic structure and generic vocabulary.
  • Students actively convey their message with sufficient clarity and precision. 
  • Students understand conventional narrative and descriptive texts on topics of general interest from the knowledge of the language itself.
  • Students understand sequencing, time frame, chronology in text with sufficient control of standard linguistic conventions (e.g., suffixes, nominalizers).  
  • Students recognize the main argument in argumentative texts.  
  • Students understand oral discourse of expanded descriptions or narrations that use familiar language patterns.
  • Students narrate and describe about topics of general interests including cultural, political, social and academic or professional issues (e.g., an essay describing an issue).
  • Students incorporate some cohesive devices.
  • Students display knowledge of distinction between formal and informal discourse.

Culture

GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER CULTURES

 2.1 Practices 2.2 Products
  • Students explore and discuss social, economic, and/or sociolinguistic topics related to Korean culture.
  • Students discuss national events, family relationships, and education in the Korean speaking communities.
  • Students explore cultural, social, and economic issues discussed at various media (e.g., commercials, documentaries, newspaper articles, TV programs, and websites).
  • Students analyze, discuss, and evaluate Korean traditional cultural practices and their influences on contemporary social interactions (e.g., business culture).
  • Students identify, discuss and analyze major Korean cultural, social, and/or economic contributions in the world and compare and contrast news coverage of those issues.
  • Students analyze connections between cultural perspectives and socially approved behavioral patterns within Korean cultural contexts (e.g., accepting and declining compliments, filial piety, business etiquette) and their representations in the mass media.
  • Students discuss, analyze and critique Korean artistic products in relation to social, religious, economic, and political contexts, and explore relationships among these institutions and perspectives of Korean culture (e.g., temples, churches, palaces).
  • Students analyze and critique expressive products of both traditional and popular Korean culture (e.g., film, music, arts) and identify the elements of Korean culture that are reflected in these products.
  • Students participate in cultural events and activities. Students discuss works of Korean folktales, short stories, and historical narratives.

Connection

CONNECT WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES AND ACQUIRE INFORMATION

 3.1 Knowledge 3.2 viewpoints
  • Students use authentic media sources to acquire information and to exchange opinion on issues of academic and professional interests.
  • Students seek out materials of interest to them, extract information, analyze the content, and compare it to information available in their own language.
  • Students develop and support a point of view on topics of personal and general interests, incorporating information from a variety of Korean language sources to prepare reports.

Comparison

DEVELOP INSIGHT INTO THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

 4.1 Language 4.2 Culture
  • Students use a variety of idiomatic expressions (e.g., Chinese four-syllable idioms) and collocations (e.g., ??? ???) appropriately in speech and writing.
  • Students demonstrate awareness of nuances of speech level choices and its implications for the relationship between speakers in different social situations (e.g., switching from the polite to the intimate speech or vice versa).
  • Students demonstrate the knowledge of the ways in which the Korean language has been influenced by the historical contact with Chinese, Japanese, and English (e.g., Sino-Korean vocabulary, loan words)
  • Students demonstrate nuanced understanding of degrees of formality of various colloquial and written genres. 
  • Students show awareness of rhetorical organizations of Korean prose and that of their own language.
  • Students analyze and discuss the roles and functions of major social institutions and infrastructure (e.g., education systems, religious institutions, types of retail shopping) in Korea and contrast these with their own.
  • Students compare ways of networking in social groups and institutions such as schools and work places and understand the internal dynamics among the members.
  • Students compare and contrast Korean folktales, shorts stories, and historical narratives 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).