Korean Language: Basic Course

Bachelor 2023/2024

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Elective course (HSE University and Kyung Hee University Double Degree Programme in Economics and Politics in Asia)

Area of studies: Foreign Regional Studies

Delivered by: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Where: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

When: 1 year, 1-4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Саблина Полина Валерьевна, Чон Борам, Саблина Полина Валерьевна, Чон Борам, B.S. Chang, Tamilla Imanova, YongBae Yu, Ким Мария Дмитриевна

Language: English

ECTS credits: 23

Contact hours: 594

Full Syllabus

Abstract

This 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. It is expected that students will reach the B1 level according to CEFR (TOPIC level 3) by the end of the course. Students are also expected to acquire basic speaking and listening comprehension skills, a considerable body of basic grammar, reading and writing skills within the topics covered in class. 45 credits.

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, hanja) 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 a foreign language and culture, ICT included.

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.
4. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to identify basic hanja that are necessary for understanding nuances of meaning of Chinese-origin lexis which are about 60% of Korean language lexis.
5. Upon completion of the course, students will demonstrate basic knowledge in Korean geography, history, social life within topics covered during course.

Course Contents

Basic I: Hangeul
Basic I: Greetings
Basic I: Dormitory
Basic I: My family
Basic I: Neighborhood
Basic I: Daily Routines
Basic I: College life
Basic I: To the college
Basic I: Visiting friend’s house
Basic I: Restaurant
Basic I: Hobby
Basic I: College club
Basic I, II: Phone call
Basic I: Phone call
Basic II: At the café
Basic II: Bank
Basic II: Emotions and mood
Basic II: Worries
Basic II: Weather, climate
Basic II: Shopping
Basic II: Impression
Basic II: Decisions and Plans
Basic II: Life changes
Basic II: Leisure
Basic II. Reading: Geography
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
Basic II. Hanja: Chinese characters as a writing system
Basic II. Hanja: Introduction
Basic II. Reading: Korean Literature
Basic II. Reading: Korean History
Basic II. Reading: Korean Culture and Society

Assessment Elements

Unit test (first year)
1st year The test consists of two parts: 1) Writing test consists of short dialogs and/or short texts to be translated from Russian into Korean, listening task and grammar or writing task. 2) Interview (students are required to talk to instructor on the topic of the Unit). The format and the topics of the test are subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.
Unit test (second year)
The test consists of two parts: 1) Writing test consists of short dialogs and/or short texts to be translated from Russian into Korean, listening task and grammar or writing task. 2) Interview (students are required to talk to instructor on the topic of the Unit). The format and the topics of the test are subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.
Noncreative assignment (first year)
Noncreative assignment (second year)
Creative assignment (first year)
Creative assignment (second year)
Final writing assignment (first year)
Final writing assignment consists of writing an essay on one of the topics covered during the course, listening task and translation from Russian to Korean.
Final writing assignment (second year)
Final writing assignment consists of writing an essay on one of the topics covered during the course, listening task and translation from Russian to Korean.
Examination (first year)
Examination consists of interview and reading and interpreting text = Interview *0.6 + Text*0.4
Examination (first year)
Examination consists of interview and reading and interpreting text = Interview *0.6 + Text*0.4
Examination (second year)
Examination consists of interview and reading and interpreting text = Interview *0.6 + Text*0.4
Examination (second year)
Examination consists of interview and reading and interpreting text = Interview *0.6 + Text*0.4

Interim Assessment

2023/2024 2nd module
0.36 * Unit test (first year) + 0.18 * Creative assignment (first year) + 0.16 * Examination (first year) + 0.24 * Final writing assignment (first year) + 0.06 * Noncreative assignment (first year)
2023/2024 4th module
0.36 * Unit test (first year) + 0.18 * Creative assignment (first year) + 0.16 * Examination (first year) + 0.24 * Final writing assignment (first year) + 0.06 * Noncreative assignment (first year)
2024/2025 2nd module
0.18 * Creative assignment (second year) + 0.16 * Examination (second year) + 0.24 * Final writing assignment (second year) + 0.06 * Noncreative assignment (second year) + 0.36 * Unit test (second year)
2024/2025 4th module
0.18 * Creative assignment (second year) + 0.16 * Examination (second year) + 0.24 * Final writing assignment (second year) + 0.06 * Noncreative assignment (second year) + 0.36 * Unit test (second year)

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
Корейский язык. Базовый курс : учеб. пособие, Бакланова, М. А., 2021

Recommended Additional Bibliography

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.

Course Syllabus