Korean 3 (Level 5)

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 5
• Convenor: Dr Michael Tsang
• Assessment: three sets of coursework (15% each), a three-hour examination including an oral interview (35%), a 1000-word self-reflexive essay (15%) and class participation (5%)

Korean 3 follows on from Korean 2 and is designed for students with a beginner’s proficiency in Korean seeking to work towards a post-beginner or pre-intermediate level. Studying Korean 3 will normally lead to a solid foundation in passing Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK)* Level 2.

This module provides you with consolidation and development in your communicative skills, preparing you for a wide range of informal/everyday and some formal/professional situations and contexts, including talking about the weather, your career, future plans, personalities, Korean culture such as music, drama, fashion, film; and expressing acceptance/refusal, determination, exclamation and so on. You will learn a wide array of vocabulary and complex grammatical structures that enable you to improve your communicative abilities. You will also learn how to discuss South Korean culture which is becoming ever more popular.

Classes are interactive and taught by native speakers.

*The Test of Proficiency in Korean is a six-level Korean language test for non-native speakers of Korean, administered by the National Institute of International Education which is a branch of South Korea’s Ministry of Education. It is a widely recognised and default proficiency test for the Korean language. The levels are roughly tiered in the same way as the CEFR framework (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2).

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• express yourself in pre-intermediate Korean to achieve a variety of tasks, such as:
• talking about the weather, your career, future plans, personalities, Korean culture such as music, drama, fashion, film
• expressing acceptance/refusal, determination, exclamation and so on.
• comprehend various communicative exchanges in a range of social and work situations
• understand the gist of some less complex media texts, for example, public announcements and adjusted radio extracts or television clips
• understand the main points of a range of texts which you may encounter in everyday life and some work situations
• extract necessary information from a wide range of less complicated and/or adjusted texts in various fields
• formulate messages and express views connected with everyday life and some work situations, including short essays, with an awareness of appropriate compositional coherence and/or structure.