110: Learning Activity (Telling Time) / Artifact #5

[Allan Peng]

I was having difficulty learning how to tell time in Korean, so I created a learning activity to teach another peer how to tell time.

The outline in the activity involves first establishing the structure of telling time. You must have morning/afternoon, the hour, and then the minute. The hour is counted with the native Korean numbers and the minute is counted by Sino-Korean numbers.

I explained this activity to a non-Korean language learner as well as a peer in the same language (Christy). I believe that this activity helped everyone. It was difficult to remember all of the numbers, especially the native Korean words, which seemed to not follow a specific trend like Sino-Korean did, but if there was anything to take away from the activity, everyone learned the structure of telling time. If we were given a chart of the native- and Sino- Korean numbers, we would be able to tell time with proper structure.

Because telling time was also a difficulty for me, this can also be treated as an artifact (#5).

• The task I was working on was learning how to tell time better. I was having difficulty remembering the structure as well as all of the numbers. Knowing all of the Hangeul/native Korean numbers was difficult and frustrating because I could not find a specific trend or pattern to remember those numbers.
• I strategy I used to better learn was to use this opportunity to combine an artifact with a learning activity. I figured that if I could explain the structure to another person, it would help me to learn better.
• Overall, I believe that it was much better than simply reading off of a textbook. The first attempt using that strategy was ineffective. With this new strategy of creating a learning activity to teach someone else, I found it much more effective.
• In the short term, I want to be able to tell time with the aid of a chart with all of the numbers. In the long-term, I want to be able to tell time without the aid of a number chart. For now, I need to use the chart because there are two separate numbers systems used just to tell time.