Learning Plan

LEARNING PLAN PRESENTATION

I organized my Korean learning plan by creating a Google Slides. I first introduced some facts about myself, including my intended major, minor, and when I arrived to the United States to explain to my fellow classmates why I decided to take SDLC 105 and 110. Ultimately, my goal was to improve all three of these categories to another level of proficiency: reading, writing, and speaking. The reason is because I want to work in Korea or an American business/firm located in South Korea in the future. 

I decided to divide my learning plan into task-based goals. The first one was the task of understanding television news and broadcasting coverage. Ever since I was young, I have always been exposed to television news from my parents. Although I knew that the reporters were speaking in Korean, I had no clue what information they were reporting or comprehend the topics being stated. I believe that understanding the news is a vital part of succeeding in the future as a Business major. I know that I must stay updated about current economic events to be able to work in Korea’s fast-paced economy. Therefore, in regards to the language elements, I will learn certain vocabulary words that pertain to current events/news. For example, words like, economy, politics, and markets. Additionally, I will try to learn phrases that I am likely to hear on the media as well. An activity I can do to improve my news comprehension skills is to probably simply listen to some Korean news channels. Then I can write down words I do not recognize or know. And finally, I can attempt at summarizing the information stated in the broadcasting. 

Another task based goal is that I want to improve my academic/scholarly writing abilities. I have always been pretty good about texting in Korea, however, I am very poor at writing professional letters and essays in Korea. For the language element, I will work on learning some professional vocabulary and not slangs and acronyms. In addition, I want to learn how to How to address certain people by learning more about the hierarchical positions in Korea.

And ultimately, I want to learn how to correctly space the words and phrases in Korean. I think an activity I can do is to work with my language partner, Jenna, to learn about spacing in Korean. In addition, we can write about interesting topics using the method learned even if there are mistakes. And finally, I can have my writings checked by Jenna and make meaningful revisions after.

Jenna and I had our first meeting this Tuesday and I learned quite a lot from that one session. 

For our firsft meeting, Jenna brought two Korean articles about the weather forecast and the spread of coronavirus in Korea. I thought it was actually gonna be easy and I was gonna know all the words, but to my complete surprise, there were so many different vocabulary words I did not recovgnize and sometimes could not even pronounce. Then we went on to read the articles together, sharing a line each and then Jenna asking me to translate those lines. For the first time I learned how to say North, South, East, West.



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