How have you organized your self-directed learning plan, and what have you learned so far? How will your studies allow you investigate your target language and culture more deeply? What first prompted your interest, and motivated you to start learning?
After receiving feedback from your classmates and Dr. Marsh-Soloway, what changes do you anticipate making?
I organized my self-directed learning plan mainly based on the table of contents in the textbook that I will be primarily using, “Integrated Korean Beginning”. Additional to that, I am planning to use the workbook as an auxiliary tool to frequently check my learning process. For this semester, I hope to be able to conduct simple conversations in formal Korean on topics such as campus life, greetings, directions, etc. I then split these topics into weekly learning objectives and tasks to make my overall learning plan more plausible. With such schedules, I believe that I could have a better understanding on how the daily life in Korea is like and in what ways people interact with each other. I met with my Korean language partner, Lena, and my classmate, Christiana on Wednesday, and we went over the Korean alphabets, pronunciation rules, and some common words when ordering food. As I am basically a beginner 0 in Korean, even though I took an online course of introduction to Korean alphabet during last semester, Lena helped me refresh my memories from that class and saved time for learning new words and expressions.
By having a detailed and feasible plan, I could better follow up my learning results and make timely feedback on periodic progress. I have been interested in Korean culture since I was in middle school. Around that time, K-pop culture such as TVXQ, Super Junior and Big Bang dominated the Chinese market and almost all my peers fell for the Korean culture trend. As China is located right next to South Korea, many aspects of our culture are some kind of related. It is the same for Japanese culture too. Language could also have influences on people’s behaviors as the reflection of that country’s culture. Through learning Korean, I believe that I could have a deeper understanding on both the traditional and modern Korean culture, which may further help me explore potential career opportunities when later working in Asia. Still, after talking to Dr. Marsh-Soloway and looking through peer’s evaluations, I think I should slow down the pace of my learning plan, as it might be tough to catch up with when putting into actual work.
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