Level Heritage

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, family, socialization).
  • Students handle a limited number of uncomplicated communication tasks in straightforward social situation (e.g., planning an activity, 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 engage in conversations with the understanding of the appropriate usage between deferential, polite and intimate/plain speech endings.
  • Students participate in conversation in a formal context (e.g., interviews at a Korean community, talking to   professors) using deferential or polite endings.
  • Students handle formal contexts by using formal vocabulary rather than slang and informal expressions.

Reading

  • Students understand basic information from short, non-complex texts dealing with topics of personal interest or prior knowledge.
  • Students understand short descriptive and narrative texts on familiar topics.

Listening

  • Students understand usage of frequently used sentence enders (e.g. –거든요, 잖아요, 네요) and other discourse markers.
  • Students obtain basic information from discussion and presentations in a formal context.
  • Students notice discrepancies between their (incorrect) forms to the correct form through written or oral corrective feedback.
  • Students write compositions about personal information and experiences or on familiar topics using plain speech style.
  • Students give formal presentation about personal preferences, daily routines, common events and other personal topics using deferential speech level.
  • Students report using formal speech based on simple interviews or experiences from the Korean community.

Culture

GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER CULTURES

 2.1 Practices 2.2 Products
  • Students demonstrate understanding of Korean speech levels by using it appropriately in conversation (e.g., polite vs. deferential, intimate vs. plain) in various formal and informal contexts and kinship terms and titles to address and refer to people.
  • Students demonstrate understanding of unique Korean cultural practices and share their experiences as a Korean-American (e.g., leisure activities, college life).
  • Students demonstrate an understanding of common social customs in their home and the Korean community in the US and in Korea (e.g., Korea town, relatives in Korea).
  • Students identify and understand both tangible products (e.g., clothing, household items, food) and expressive products (e.g., pop songs, folksongs, modern & traditional dances) of Korean culture.
  • Students understand the origin and general historical background of Korean traditional games, sports, performance, and cooking.
  • Students demonstrate understanding on the significance of the products of Korean culture that reflect daily life (e.g., food, clothing, dwelling, leisure activities) and traditional and modern artifacts.

Connection

CONNECT WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES AND ACQUIRE INFORMATION

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

Comparison

DEVELOP INSIGHT INTO THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

 4.1 Language 4.2 Culture
  • Students recognize and compare the discrepancy between their Korean versus the Korean structures learned in class.
  • Students compare and contrast Korean language used in an informal (e.g., home or their parent’s language) versus formal (e.g., presentation, writing, classroom) context. 
  • Students recognize and compare the organizational principle in the Korean language of general-to-specific, and macro-to-micro with that of English (e.g., dates, mailing address, surname-given name).
  • Students demonstrate awareness of the nuances of speech level choices and its implications for the relationship between speakers in different social situations (e.g., switching from polite to intimate speech level or vice versa).
  • Students demonstrate understanding of honorific forms and compare expressions of politeness in Korean and English.
  • Students recognize and compare how to express in Korean and in their own language modal meanings (e.g., 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 compare and contrast products of the Korean culture to those of American culture (e.g., food, songs, games, folktales, holiday celebrations).
  • Students identify cultural interests and practices that they have in common with their Korean and Korean-American peers (e.g., video games, fast food, animation, popular culture, sports).
  • Students understand similarities and differences between Korean, Korean-American, and American cultures in regards to manners and daily routines in various situations (e.g., greetings, table manners, dwelling).
  • 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 those facilities in the US and/or Korea towns in the US (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).

Community

PARTICIPATE IN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITIES AT HOME & AROUND THE WORLD

 5.1 Beyond the school setting 5.2 Life-long learners
  • Students communicate on a personal level with speakers of the Korean language via a variety of media (e.g., writing simple letters, email, on daily activities to someone in Korean language community).
  • Students participate in a school or community celebration that involves Korea or Korean culture.
  • Students experience simple transactional situations in Korean community (e.g., shopping, ordering in restaurants, making phone calls).
  • Students participate in language programs in Korea.         
  • Students communicate in Korean to carry out tasks with Korean people outside of the classroom.
  • Students discuss their preferences concerning leisure activities and current events in written form or orally, with peers and family members who speak Korean.
  • Students give performances such as skits, song contests, or story-telling for a Korean community.
  • Students organize Korean cultural events or social activities.
  • Students attend or view via media cultural events and social activities in Korea or their Korean community
  • Students make a plan to travel to Korea.
  • 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.