922-182 Monash-Korean 1

Subject to sufficient enrolment and the availability of teaching staff, classes will be taught at Monash University's City Centre/Monash University's Clayton campus.

This subject provides an introduction to the contemporary Korean language, with special emphasis on spoken language. Introduction to written Korean and the Korean alphabet will be delivered on-line. The subject focuses on the development of basic communicative competence in the Korean language. Topics include communicating in basic daily life situations, such as describing things, comparing and requesting. Students will learn to read and comprehend contextually constrained simple texts and to write most sentences that they produce orally. In the computer lab class, they will learn how to send email in Korean.

A 2-hour exam 40%, four 5-minute listening tests 20%, a 10-minute oral test 20%, three homework writing tasks and three web tasks 20%.

• Young-A Cho, In-Jung Cho and Douglas Ling, My Korean, Book 1.
• Young-A Cho and In-Jung Cho, Korean through Active Listening, Book 1.