K101 Elementary Korean 1

Table of Contents

1. COURSE DESCRIPTION
2. TEXTBOOKS
3. GRADING
4. LAB PROCEDURES
5. WEEKLY SCHEDULE
6. Resources
7. BACKGROUND SURVEY
8. ONCOURSE
9. CeLTIE

Instructor: Prof. Hyo Sang Lee           

Office: Goodbody Hall (GB) 229
Phone: 855-8721
E-mail: korean@indiana.edu
Office Hours: TR 10:00-11:00 or by appointment

Associate Instructors:

Jihye Lee

Office: Goodbody Hall 003-2
E-mail: lee426@indiana.edu
Office Hours: R 2:30-3:30

Hyun-Jin Kim

Office: Goodbody Hall 003-2
E-mail: hk14@indiana.edu
Office Hours: F10:05-11:05

Class meetings:

Lectures (Section 15612/15615): T, R 11:15 - 12: 05 Ballantine Hall (BH) 139

Drill Sections:

• Sec. 2328/2331 MWF 10:10 - 11:00 Ballantine Hall (BH) 232
• Sec. 2329/2332 MWF 11:15 - 12:05 Ballantine Hall (BH) 232
• Sec. 31234/31235 MWF 11:15 - 12:05 Swain East (SE) 009

1. Course Description

Elementary Korean I is the first part of First Year Korean. The course provides students with basic conversational & grammatical patterns, assuming that the students have no or little previous background knowledge of Korean.

The objective of the course is to equip students with communicative skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing at a basic level in Korean; students will learn how to express simple ideas such as attributes, identities, locations, time, daily activities, weekend plan, as well as how to combine simple ideas in various ways.

Classes are divided into two parts: two hours of lectures conducted by Prof. Lee, and three hours of drill sections conducted by an associate instructor (AI). Lectures will include explanations of those conversational patterns in grammatical and pragmatic terms.

Drill sections will provide the students with opportunities to practice in actual communicative situations with various tasks and activities. Among the three drill sessions, Monday will be designated mainly for reports on weekend, listening activities, and chapter quizzes. Besides chapter quizzes on Monday, there are daily vocabulary and/or dictation quizzes.

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2. Textbooks

• Main textbook: Integrated Korean (Beginning 1)
• Workbook: Integrated Korean Workbook (Beginning 1)
• Supplemental material is available through the internet (find links in the weekly schedule)

3. Grading

Students will be evaluated for the final grade based on the following percentage.

Class attendance *	10%
Class participation**	5%
Assignments***	10%
Chapter Quizzes	15%
Vocabulary & dictation Quizzes (daily)	10%
Midterm (TBA)	15%
Oral performance (Skits & oral reporting)	10%
Oral Final Exam (TBA)	5%
Written Final exam: Dec. 17 (Thu) 5:00-7:00	20%

* Attendance check will be strictly enforced; extremely low attendance may lower your final grade further, unless a written proof of inevitable circumstance is provided; no more than 5 excuses will be granted; more than 5 absences will result in one grade down, and more than 10 absences in lectures and drill sections all together will result in an F for the course. Extra-credits will be given for excellent attendance record and participation in Korean events in campus.

Those who have the perfect attendance record (no absence) will get awarded 5 days of Extra credit (about 1% of the total grade); if your absence is zero due to the excuses granted, the number of excuses will be deducted from the 6 days of extra credit.

Participating in Korean events such as Korean Conversation Club, Korean film showing, cultural events, etc. will also be awarded extra-credits.

** Your performance in each drill section will be monitored and graded by your AI each day. The grading criteria not only includes your Korean language performance, but also your attitude, cooperation, preparation and participation.

*** Homeworks are due at the beginning of the class of the day specified for due date.

Late homework must be handed in within a week from the deadline: the maximum point for late homework will be 10% less for each day delayed; the homework submitted after the class is counted as late homework.)

 

Grades will be assigned based on the following scale:

97+	A+	93+	A	90+	A-
87+	B+	83+	B	80+	B-
77+	C+	73+	C	70+	C-
67+	D+	63+	D	60+	D-
below 60	F

There will be no makeup exam unless provided with a written proof for a justifiable reason. In case a make up exam is granted, it must be done within a week from the original exam date. Students' progress will be monitored and considered for the final grade, especially for the border line cases.

Written assignments will be graded on your efforts as well as on your performance.

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4. Lab assignments:

Lab activity is required. For each week, you are expected to do the assigned lab material at least for 1 hour. Writeup assignments will also be given regularly on the lab material.

 For your convenience, the audio material from the textbooks and the workbook is available on-line in the web. Go to: http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/korean101.html

In order to take advantage of the lab material effectively the following procedures are advised:  

• Step 1.  Listen to the audio without written material. Check how much you could understand.
  
• Step 2.  Listen to the same part again, with the written material
  
• Step 3.  Repeat after the model for each utterance (avoid using the written material as much as you can).
  
• Step 4.  Go over the material again without written material. Make sure you understand the material thoroughly.
  
• Step 5.  Give yourself a dictation test for the main texts (conversations and narrations).
  
• Step 6.  Check your answers with the textbook.
  (Steps 5 and 6 are strongly recommended to enhance your listening and writing & spelling skills)

Recording your voice:

The language lab in BH115 and 117 is equipped with a recording device called "Sanako." You can record your own voice in practice. You can also create audio files of your recording. A number of assignments may be given to record your lab activites and and be submitted as audio files. See the instruction on how to record your voice and save it as an audio file.

Using Korean language facebook:

Every week, a topic will be posted on Korean language student group in Facebook. You need to post your comments. Your performace will be graded as part of participation.

Feel free to post a message, for which you will get extra-credit.

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