I revised my initial learning plan by adding more goals and details after meeting with Dr. Marsh-Soloway. I like the pace that I'm going so far. Though I deviated from my learning plan since then, I believe I am making progress. I made a suggestion to Seong-hye to use the Integrated Korean Workbook-beginning 2 from Global Studios center since I thought it laid out grammar and vocabulary more logically than the previous workbook that I worked with. I've been reading short stories that I've requested from Seong-hye. Over time, I have also realized that my accent and dialect becomes more Americanized if I'm less comfortable with the subject, which added to the goal of immersing myself in foreign topics. I have been speaking with my parents and other Korean-speaking friends more often and tried to put topics that I recently learned into use to solidify my learning of the subject. I also learned more about Korean culture and events such as the March First Movement and the current smog crisis, something that I wouldn't have known about if I wasn't actively looking and learning about Korean.
Through my learning plan, I am developing my organizational competence with grammar lessons from the Integrated Korean Workbook. For illocutionary competence, I am increasing my vocabulary and keeping a journal with new words that I'm learning each week. Sociolinguistic competence is learned through learning both the honorific terms and informal terms in grammar and vocabulary that is in the lessons, as well as other cultural slang that is used. As we have learned in class, culture can help with language learning by knowing what is important in the culture and how language helps facilitate the cultural experience in a country.
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