KOREAN LANGUAGE 2 MOD.2

This course falls within the characterizing teachings of the "Korea" curriculum of the course "Languages, Cultures and Societies of Asia and Mediterranean Africa".
Its formative objectives fall within the area of language skills learning.

1) Language knowledge and language comprehension:
Complete the knowledge of grammatical structures of Korean at intermediate level.
Knowledge and understanding of the usage of grammatical structures of Korean at intermediate level (CEFR Level B1+/B2)

2) Ability to apply language knowledge and comprehension:
Ability to identify grammar categories and their properties.
Demonstrate a general comprehension of Korean grammatical structures for intermediate level.
Ability to describe constructs and grammatical phenomena of Korean, acquired during the course.
Ability to make a correct use of terminology and basic tools of syntactic analysis acquired.

Having completed passed Korean Language 1.1 and 1.2

Here the grammatical structures studied in the second semester of Korean Language 2:

1 lesson - background or circumstance, in spite of
2 lesson - POSTNOUN, diminutive
3 lesson - was going to, after, while...ing, because of, adverbative form
4 lesson - causative, turns out, it would be best to, expressing intentions
5 lesson – ‘대로’ (according to/as soon as), the plain style, because of (2)
6 lesson - the copula transferentive
7 lesson - quotations(direct, indirect). quoted questions, suggestions, commands
8 lesson - the particle '으로' more meaning
9 lesson – retrospection ‘-던-‘
10 lesson - to the extend that, after (2), for the sake of something
11 lesson - more summative form (really it / does it both A and B / to be sure but / does nothing but)
12 lesson - is fairly...pretty, postmodifier '-기'(about time)
13 lesson - postmodifier '-기'(oblique question) with know/don’t know, with informations
14 lesson - polite question form '-가요/-나요', review and summary(1)
15 lesson - review and summary (2)

Textbook:
Ross King, Jae-Hoon Yeon and Insune Lee, Continuing Korean, Tuttle Publishing, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: 2002.

Additional texts
- Ihm Ho Bin et al., Korean Grammar for International Learners, Yonsei University Press, Seoul: 2001
- Lee Iksop and Ramsey Robert S., The Korean Language, SUNY Press, New York: 2000.
- Martin, Samuel E., A Reference Grammar of Korean, Tuttle Publishing, Rutland Vermont & Tokyo: 1992.
- Sohn Ho-Min, Korean, Routledge, London and New York:1994.
- Sohn Ho-Min, The Korean Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1999.

Further materials will be distributed in class.

The exam consists of written and oral tests on grammatical forms, colloquial Korean, short compositions. The written test lasts about 90 minute.

Teacher-led classes and practice with native-speakers.

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In order to pass the exam, students must obtain scores of 18 and above in all test. The final result will be the average of the scores obtained in Korean Language 2.1 and 2.2.

written and oral