The objectives of the course is to develop Korean language proficiency at the intermediate level which includes 1) expressing various stances of the speaker’s stance–e.g. judgment, inference, and evaluation or subjective assessment of ideas–and 2) expressing more complex relations between events such as cause, reason, purpose, condition, concession, intention, and background. Skills for simple narration and written report will be enhanced.
Students are expected to command a lengthy narrative discourse on personal experience. Each class is divided into two parts: one hour of lectures and one hour of practice sections. Lectures will include explanations of conversational patterns in grammatical and pragmatic terms.
Practice sections will provide the students with opportunities to practice in communicative situations with various tasks and activities, utilizing authentic materials such as TV or newspaper commercials, drama clips, picture books, cartoons, songs, and movies. It focuses on listening and speaking in various social settings, and developing sociolinguistic appropriateness in communication.
