This 2-year course is designed to provide practical skills and knowledge on the vocabulary and grammar of the Korean language to the students who have no background in Korean. The course provides students with the opportunities to develop a sufficient competency in Korean and to use it in a variety of ways to develop their communication skills. The course will focus on four skills: speaking, listening, writing and reading, while also providing them with a deeper understanding of Korean grammar. It is expected that by the end of the course students will obtain B1 level according to CEFR or Level Intermediate 1 (중급 1) of the Kyung Hee University (KHU) Korean Language Test. They are also expected to acquire basic understanding of Korea and its culture.
Learning Objectives
The course aims at developing communicative competence – developing communicative skills through speaking, listening, reading and writing in communicative scenarios and topics chosen for the course.
It also aims at developing language competence – learning new language units (orthographic, phonetic, lexical, grammar) related to communicative scenarios and topics of the course; learning about language phenomena in the foreign language, about various ways of expressing ideas using the native and foreign languages.
Course aims at developing socio-cultural competence – introducing students to the culture, traditions and realia of the country whose language they are learning; developing skills of presenting their country and its culture when communicating with foreigners.
Course suggests developing cognitive competence – developing general and special academic skills; familiarizing students with available ways of autonomous learning of the Korean language and culture.
Expected Learning Outcomes
1. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to identify the topic and main idea; make inference and predictions about spoken discourse; understand and hold real-life conversation on topic covered in class.
2. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to use grammatical structure accurately; compose both simple and complex sentences and texts; write well-developed and logical essays on topic covered within course.
3. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to skim for a main idea; scan for details; summarize and paraphrase information in the text; deduce meaning from the context.
Course Contents
Level: Beginning 1. Introduction: Preliminary part / Preparatory part
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Unit 9
Level: Beginning 2. Unit 1
Unit 2.
Unit 4.
Unit 3.
Unit 5.
Year 2. Level: Beginning 2. Unit 6
Unit 7.
Unit 8.
Unit 9.
Unit 10.
Level: Intermediate 1. Unit 1.
Unit 2:
Unit 3:
Unit 4:
Unit 5:
Basic II. Hanja: Weather
Basic II. Hanja: Geography
Basic II. Hanja: Culture and history of Korea
Basic II. Hanja: Society
Basic II. Hanja: Names
Basic II. Hanja: Student life
Basic II. Hanja: Time
Unit 10:
Unit 9:
Unit 8:
Unit 7:
Unit 6:
Assessment Elements
Participation
Participation in Listening and Speaking classes
Attendance
Unit test / Unit presentation
Final examination. 1st year. 2.
Final examination. 1st year. 1.
Final examination. 2nd year. 2.
Participation in Grammar classes
Final examination. 2nd year. 1.
Participation in Reading and Writing classes
Interim Assessment
2025/2026 2nd module
0.4 * Final examination. 1st year. 1. + 0.15 * Participation in Grammar classes + 0.1 * Participation in Listening and Speaking classes + 0.15 * Participation in Reading and Writing classes + 0.2 * Unit test / Unit presentation
2025/2026 4th module
0.4 * Final examination. 1st year. 2. + 0.15 * Participation in Grammar classes + 0.1 * Participation in Listening and Speaking classes + 0.15 * Participation in Reading and Writing classes + 0.2 * Unit test / Unit presentation
2026/2027 2nd module
0.4 * Final examination. 2nd year. 1. + 0.15 * Participation in Grammar classes + 0.1 * Participation in Listening and Speaking classes + 0.15 * Participation in Reading and Writing classes + 0.2 * Unit test / Unit presentation
2026/2027 4th module
0.4 * Final examination. 2nd year. 2. + 0.15 * Participation in Grammar classes + 0.1 * Participation in Listening and Speaking classes + 0.15 * Participation in Reading and Writing classes + 0.2 * Unit test / Unit presentation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
Yeon, J., & Brown, L. (2011). Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=433863
Recommended Additional Bibliography
Корейский язык. Базовый курс : учеб. пособие, Бакланова, М. А., 2021
Чой, Я. С. Корейский язык. Вводный курс / Я. С. Чой. — Санкт-Петербург : КАРО, 2019. — 512 с. — ISBN 978-5-9925-0688-4. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/164278 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
Преподаватель
Нахова Тамилла Ильгаровна
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Learning Objectives
Expected Learning Outcomes
Course Contents
Assessment Elements
Interim Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
Recommended Additional Bibliography
Authors