Shuyi Chen
Dr. Scinicariello
SDLC 105
10/29/2015
SDLC 105 Reflection Paper#2
My learning journals posted in Ning map my learning progress and goals.In my learning journey with Korean language, I made my own study plans and followed my specific tasks such as roleplaying with language partners and watching tutorials to get improvement step by step depending on my own interests instead of leading by a fixed and general construction. I have a clear communicative goals such as carrying simple conversations with Koreans for 4 minutes by the end of this semester. Hence, I have control on my language learning.I can understand a few repetitive phrases and words in Korean songs and Korean dramas now. However, it’s certainly acknowledged that learning a language is a lengthy progress and I cannot wish to speak as a native speaker in a few months. But I really feel comfortable with my learning plan and current progress.
Understanding a culture, albeit slowly, enhances the effectiveness of my language learning process future-orientedly. I learned that Korean culture even directly appears in daily conversation. The hierarchy in Korean is reflected in how we address people on the ways and content people speak. For example, in comparison, the hierarchy extent in South Korea is higher that in the States. I have to clearly consider before I intend to talk to someone in Korea regarding his/her social standing, age, occupations. If I fail to do so, I might be regarded as impolite and rude. In the future, I would like to delve in the concrete words related to the formality and informality on volume of speaking, intonation and pronunciation in a sentence.
Due to my longtime interest in Korean language, I tried to get immersed in Korean by watching Korean dramas and listening to Korean songs in a daily base. It is a good way to recognize the appropriate attitudes and conversations under different scenarios. Then based on the questions I generated from Korean dramas, I would inquire my language partner to get answers pertaining to sending and receiving intended meanings in order to enrich my knowledge of sociocultural rules of Korean language.
From the reading, lyle Bachmans divided language competence into two node(s): Organizational competence and pragmatic competence. As a starter in Korean language, I might focus on Organizational competence including grammatical competence and textual competence. Although vocabulary and sentences are only parts of language, they are still the base of language as we build up our knowledge from words and sentences. In this semester, I will stick to my learning plan and continues my self-directed language learning progress. Combining the practice with language partner outside of classroom and the Korean drama, I try to move forward to understand the functional aspects of communication on my Korean language learning journey step by step. Hope I can successfully master the linguistic code of Korean such as the Korean alphabet, Korean characters on sentence-level grammar this semester.Then I will try to learn to conduct few interpersonal conversations. I wish to achieve my goals in my learning plan and overcome the difficulties in my language learning journey.
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