Level 6

Communication

COMMUNICATE IN LANGUAGE

 1.1 Interpersonal 1.2 Interpretive 1.3 Presentational
  • Students participate in discussions of a variety of concrete topics and a few abstract topics of community, national, or international interest (e.g., modernization, violence, environment). 
  • Students narrate, describe and explain with relevant and supporting facts in connected, paragraph length discourse.
  • Students exchange and debate opinions and perspectives with supporting arguments.
  • Students produce a substantial flow of speech, use extensive vocabulary.
  • Students use communication strategies competently when complications arise.   
  • Students understand complex factual material and conventional narrative and descriptive texts of any length.  
  • Students conduct research and analyze information from library and electronic resources. 
  • Students follow essential points of argumentative texts in areas of special interest and knowledge. 
  • Students go beyond comprehension of the facts in a text and recognize author-intended inferences or identity theoretical/political perspectives. 
  • Students show awareness of nuances or aesthetic qualities of the language used in a text. 
  • Students narrate and describe with detail on topics of general interest (e.g., a critical review of a cultural product).
  • Students use a variety of devices in texts of several-paragraph length.
  • Students express ideas clearly and support them with appropriate elaboration.
  • Students show development of Superior level ability to explain complex matter and develop cogent arguments and hypothesis to present and support opinions. 

Culture

GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER CULTURES

 2.1 Practices 2.2 Products
  • Students explore and discuss political, religious, and/or historical topics related to Korean culture.
  • Students discuss social, political, and/or diplomatic issues, religious practices, and/or historical interpretations that affect the Korean speaking communities.
  • Students become familiar with political, religious, and/or historical issues discussed at various media (e.g., commercials, documentaries, newspaper articles, TV programs, and websites) and compare and contrast news coverage of those issues.
  • Students identify, discuss and analyze major Korean political, diplomatic, and/or religious contributions in the world history and compare and contrast news coverage of those issues.
  • Students discuss, analyze and critique artistic products of the Korean culture related to historical events, and explore relationships among these events and perspectives of Korean culture (e.g., temples, churches, palaces, historical sites).
  • Students analyze instances of public media in Korea and identify the elements of culture that are reflected within them, including gender/social roles, speech styles, rhetorical organization (e.g., directness vs. indirectness), and value systems (e.g., collectivism vs. individualism).

Connection

CONNECT WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES AND ACQUIRE INFORMATION

 3.1 Knowledge 3.2 viewpoints
  • Students evaluate and synthetize information from a variety of authentic Korean sources to identify and analyze distinct Korean perspectives on social and political issues in relation to other perspectives.
  • Students synthetize and evaluate information gathered in other disciplines to enhance theoretical understanding of socio-cultural and historical issues.
  • Students make connection with literature by understanding various genres and literary conventions across cross-linguistic texts.

Comparison

DEVELOP INSIGHT INTO THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

 4.1 Language 4.2 Culture
  • Students recognize, understand and analyze various grammatical elements to express certain notions or to indicate specific relationships between entities or events.
  • Students recognize and understand conventions of written genres in Korean. (e.g., terms referring to the author, the reader, and other subjects, vocabulary and structural choices, rhetorical organization).
  • Students demonstrate understanding and awareness of language variation and style differences based on regions, gender, age and status differences.
  • Students identify and understand the tone of the writing and the feeling and stance of the writer through examining the style of language used. 
  • Students analyze political, religious and/or historical backgrounds that are reflected in Korean culture and those of their own.
  • Students compare and contrast the characteristics of mass media (e.g., film, TV, magazines, newspapers) in Korea and their own countries.
  • Students analyze cultural perspectives as reflected in a variety of literary genres in Korean and compare them with their own.

Community

PARTICIPATE IN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITIES AT HOME & AROUND THE WORLD

 5.1 Beyond the school setting 5.2 Life-long learners
  • Students participate in community activities that require advanced proficiency in Korean (e.g., tutoring, translating for social agencies, acting as mentors).
  • Students view current events and social activities through Korean media and interpret literary works in Korean.
  • Students do research using the Korean language resources to enhance their academic and professional interests (e.g., thesis-research, preparing a portfolio for job application, internship opportunities).